UNION BOSS DENIES FORGERY CHARGES.

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Kenya Water and Sewerage Workers Union secretary general Elijah Otieno Awach before court. /PHOTO BY S.A.N.

BY NT CORRESPONDENT.

The secretary general of the Kenya Water and Sewerage Workers Union Elijah Otieno Awach has been charged with forgery.

Awach appeared before Milimani Senior Principal Magistrate Esther Kimilu and denied the charge.

It is alleged that with intent to defraud, Awach forged the signature on National Executive committee minutes purporting it to have been signed by Ahmed Bashir Mohamed.

The charge sheet stated that he committed the offence on February 12, 2021 in Nairobi.

Further, Awach allegedly uttered the same minutes to Billy Kagia, an employee of Cooperative bank, purporting it to be genuine and signed by Bashir.

He allegedly committed the offence on February 19, 2021 at Cooperative bank, Buruburu branch.

The court released on a cash bail of Sh200,000.

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