Juja Member of Parliament George Koimburi, who was arrested on yesterday, is facing multiple charges including forging academic certificates from 1994.
While appearing at Kiambu Law Courts on Wednesday, the legislator was presented with 6 counts of forging academic certificates and another for failing to attend court on numerous dates.
According to the charge sheet, the first count is forging a Kenya National Examination Council (KNEC) certificate between November and December 1994 to secure a Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE).
In the second count, Koimburi forged a certificate of participation in the East African Universities Accession Project from the Jomo Kenyatta University of Technology (JKUAT) between September 2011 and April 2012
In the third count, Koimburi forged certificate from the School of Human Resource Development from JKUAT.
Koimburi’s fourth count is “knowingly and fraudulently” forging a KCSE certificate from KNEC at the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission on March 8, 2021.
In the sixth count, Koimburi is being charged with presenting his School of Human Resource Development certificate from JKUAT to EACC on the aforementioned date.
The legislator was arrested on Tuesday, on his way to Parliament and transported to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) headquarters for questioning.