BY SAM ALFAN.
Rural Electrification and Renewable Energy Corporation General Manager, Finance and ICT has been charged with earning salaries and allowances amounting to Sh1. 4 million using fake degree.
Noah Aketch Oluoch appeared before Milimani Anti-Corruption Magistrate Thomas Nzioki and denied the charges.
Aketch is accused that between 1st April to 31st August 2022 within Nairobi County being a public officer employed as General Manager, Finance and ICT at Rural Electrification and Renewable Energy Corporation, you fraudulently acquired public property in terms of salary and allowances amounting to Sh. 1,455,066.0 from RERE.
Prosecution further told the court that on unknown date and place within the country , Aketch forged a Master of Business Administration Degree Certificate Number 0217 in the name of Noah Oluoch Oketch, purporting it to be a genuine document issued to you by the University of Nairobi, a fact you knew to be false.
He was further charged that on the 23rd day of March, 21 at the Rural Electrification and Renewable Energy Corporation, knowingly and fraudulently uttered a forged Master of Business ministration Degree Certificate to CPA r’eter Mbugua, the Chief Executive Officer at the RERE purporting it to be a genuine document issued to you by the University of Nairobi, a fact you knew to be false.
He was released on a bond of Sh1 million or alternative cash bail of Sh500, 000
