Kajiado West Member of Parliament George Sunkuyia has been arrested by officers from the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) over allegations of forging a KCSE certificate.
The MP, elected on a UDA ticket, was picked up from his home in Nairobi early Tuesday and taken to the EACC headquarters at the Integrity Centre. He is expected to be charged in court as investigations continue.
According to the EACC, the legislator will face charges of providing false information to the Commission, forgery, and uttering a false document.
“On the 30th day of January 2012, at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) Juja, within Kiambu County, you knowingly and fraudulently uttered to the Registrar of Academic Affairs at JKUAT a forged Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education, Serial No. 2988068, with a mean grade of C+, purporting it to be a genuine certificate issued to you by the Kenya National Examination Council,” the charge sheet reads.
Chief of Staff and Head of Public Service Felix Koskei warned that certificate forgery is a serious offence that undermines Kenya’s core values of integrity, competence, and meritocracy.
“This vice strikes at the heart of competence and integrity in our institutions,” Koskei said. “We must confront it decisively to safeguard our national objectives.”
Before his tenure in the National Assembly, Sunkuyia served as a councillor for the Olkejuado County Council from 2002 to 2013. He also served as an MCA for Keekonyokie Ward from 2013 to 2017.
His arrest is the latest in a growing list of public officials accused of academic certificate forgery.
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