Juja lawmaker George Ndung’u Koimburi was Wednesday arraigned at a Kiambu court following his arrest on Tuesday.
The MP was slapped with three charges related to forging academic certificates and three more for uttering false documents.
He was released on a Sh200,000 cash bail.
Prosecuting Counsel, Assistant Director of Public Prosecution Everlyn Onunga, told court that on diverse dates between November and December 1994 at an unknown time and place within Republic of Kenya, with intent to deceive, the MP forged a Kenya National Examination Council (KNEC) certificate to wit Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) purporting it to be a genuine and dully signed certificate issued by KNEC.
He was charged with two other counts of forging a Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) certificate of participation in the East African Universities Accession Project and JKUAT Academic Excellence certificate from department of School of Human Resource Development.
The MP was also charged with allegedly uttering the said academic certificates and Certificate of participation, purporting them to be genuine and duly signed certificates issued by KNEC and JKUAT.
The court heard that the accused person knowingly and fraudulently uttered the said certificates on the 8th of March 2021 at the Ethics and Anti-corruption Commission (EACC) offices.
He pleaded not guilty to the charges before Mwanamkuu Mwakwambirwa.
Further, the court will rule on February 20 2025 on whether the legislator will be handed another charge of failing to attend court as preferred by the prosecution.
The accused was initially charged with forging academic certificates on April 26, 2021 and released on a bond of Sh100,000.
Court issued a warrant of arrest on 16th September 2021 after the MP failed to attend to court summons and forfeited his cash bail.
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