FORGERY FOR G.S.U TRAINING

Two men have been charged with forging documents of  the Kenya National Examination council with intent to deceive a GSU training school within Nairobi.

Mwongela Muthoka 27 and Chege Mercy Mbuthia 25 had been recruited for training at the school early last year until KNEC sited their certificates as fake documents.

According to prosecution the council wrote a letter on July 29th last year and addressed to the commissioner of Police on the verification of the two suspects.

They were charged on two counts of forgery and making a document without legal authority before a Makadara court.

The the court was cautioned of similar cases involved with the two beginning early 2011. Mwongela yesterday denied the charges days after the case was consolidated with Mbuthia's case.

Mwongela  was arrested on July 27th this month by officers from Embakasi station. He allegedly made an unreferenced forwarding letter addressed to the commandant of the training school using KNEC letter heads, address and signature.

He is accused of jointly  without others not before court for writting a letter to the Commissioner of police stating that KNEC erroneously sited his documents as fake. The forged letter that was sent on 22nd July last year, further requested to reinstate the accused to the college after verifications .

At a place and date yet to be identified by the court, he purported the letter to be genuine from the council, contrary to section 357 of the penal code.

SRM Daniel Kinaro gave orders for the Investigating officer to confirm accusations of the two suspects facing several and similar cases.

They remain in custody until their previous cases can be confirmed. They were granted a cash bail of sh 50,000 each.