BY NT CORRESPONDENT.
An alleged Freedom Airline fake pilot has been charged before a Nairobi court for presenting fake documents and falsely acquiring a Kenyan identity card.
Ahmad Nassir Dirie Olow appeared before before Chief Magistrate Martha Mutuku and denied several charges.
He is said to be a pilot for eight years flying to various countries.
Charges including forging a Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) certificate which is alleged to have used to train as a pilot at nitety nine airline club located at Wilson Airport.
The court heard that he also uttered a forged KCSE certificate to Lt Col (retired) Amin D. Ali, the head of training at Ninety Nines flying school, purporting it to be genuine and issued by Kenya National examination council.
He is further alleged to have presented the same documents to ATPU officers in January this year, yet he knew that they were fake.
Documents filed in court indicated that Olow claimed to have obtained the KCSE certificate from Wajir High School in 2007. He said he scored a mean score of B plus but when asked, Knec denied the school registration code indicated in his certificate.
The court also heard that the school principal, Adan Farah disowned him saying there was no such student in the school in 2007.
“The purported certificate issued by Kenya National Examination Council is not genuine,” Dr Mercy Karogo, the Knec chief executive said in response to inquiry by Anti-Terrorism Police Unit.
The prosecution told the court that on January 5, 2020 at Ninety Nines flying school located at Wilson Airport, Olow was found with a fake KCSE certificate, claiming that he obtained it from Wajir Secondary school in 2007.
The accused was further of obtaining registration as a Kenyan citizen in 2016, thereby was issued with a national identity card by way for false presentation.
He was arrested and arraigned in court after Detectives from Anti-Terrer Unit received a intelligence on Aviation threat.
It is questioned how he managed to trained as a pilot despite a fake form four certificate.
The accused was directed to post cash bail of Sh50,000 plus two sureties or place a bond of Sh160,000, to secure his release.
The case will be mentioned on February 8 for purposes of fixing a hearing date.
Last week, ATPU was allowed to detain Olow other two for five days pending investigations.
Meanwhile, in the same court, a Somali man was charged with obtaining registration as a Kenyan citizen by false pretences.
Abdinur Mohammed Bule alias Noor Olow Mohamed was accused that being a Somali national, willfully and by false pretences procured registration as a Kenyan citizen and was issued with a Kenyan Identity card in the names of Noor Olow Mohamed.
He allegedly committed the offence on October 14, 2016 at Mandera East Registrar of persons office.
Bule was charged with a second count of being in the country illegally and did not have a valid pass or permit against the law on January 20, 2021 at International life house in Nairobi.
