Nairobi Water employee fined Sh8.5 million for using forged KCSE certificate to secure job
This is after a probe by the EACC) established that Balamu had forged the academic document, purporting it to be a genuine certificate issued by KNEC.
The Anti-Corruption Court in Milimani on Tuesday fined an employee of the Nairobi City Water and Sewerage Company Limited (NCWSC) a total of Sh8.5 million for using a forged Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) certificate to secure employment at the company.
This is after a probe by the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) established that Felix Ojwang Balamu had forged the academic document, purporting it to be a genuine certificate issued by the Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC).
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The agency launched investigations upon receiving claims that Balamu had used a falsified KCSE certificate to obtain his position on November 9, 2011.
Upon completion of investigations, it was recommended that he be charged with fraudulent acquisition of public property, forgery, deceiving a principal, and presenting a forged certificate.
"Following the investigations, the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) concurred with the Commission's recommendation to charge. Balamu was arraigned before the Milimani Anti-Corruption Court on February 25, 2025, facing the four counts," EACC said on Tuesday.
On October 10, 2025, Judge Selesa Okore found the accused guilty of fraudulent acquisition of public property amounting to Sh8,243,562, being the total salary he unlawfully earned from the water company, and convicted him on two additional counts of deceiving a principal and presenting a false certificate.
Balamu was fined on Tuesday to Sh100,000 and Sh8,243,562, an equivalent amount of the money lost, or in default to serve four years' imprisonment in count one.
The court also sentenced him to a fine of Sh100,000 each for the counts of deceiving a principal and presenting a false KCSE certificate, or two years imprisonment in each.
In total, the accused was fined sh8,543,562, or to serve four years in prison, with the sentences set to run concurrently.
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