BY SAM ALFAN.
Kapseret Member of Parliament Oscar Sudi has been charged before Nairobi Anti-corruption with nine counts of forgery on allegations that he forged a diploma certificate.
It is alleged that on an unknown date and place, with the intent to deceive, he forged a diploma certificate in business management, purporting that it had been issued by the Kenya Institute of Management.
The lawmaker has been released on a cash bail of Sh300, 000 or a bond of Sh600, 000.
The court heard that he committed the offence on January 31, 2013 at IEBC offices in Edoret, Uasin Gishu County.
It was said that Sudi’s forged documents included his Diploma Certificate in Business Management allegedly issued by Kenya Institute of Management and KCSE document from Highway High school.
The MP is facing other counts of giving false information to an officer of the IEBC and lying to the electoral body and the EACC.
He is said to have told the two commissions of the forged documents with the intention of deceiving them.
Sudi allegedly provided false information to Derrick Kaisha, an officer of EACC, at Haron Court Hotel, Nairobi County, in September 2015.
The legislator was also accused of making a false declaration under oath through a self-declaration form to IEBC at Barng’etuny plaza in Eldoret on that date.
This was contrary to Section 46(1)(d) as read with Section 46(2) at the Leadership and Integrity Act
He was further accused of making a false statutory declaration contrary to Section 11 of the Oaths and Statuary declarations.
Sudi was charged based on the EACC’s recommendations to the DPP, following investigations.
The MP denied all the charges before judge Lawrence Mugambi of Milimani Anti-corruption Court in Nairobi.
The case will be mentioned on October 19 to set a hearing date.
