Sudi sick with Covid, court adjourns his forgery case

A case in which Kapseret MP Oscar Sudi has been accused of forging academic certificates failed to take place on Tuesday following reports he is in quarantine.

Sudi’s defence lawyers Thomas Ruto and George Wajackoyah told magistrate Felix Kombo the MP had contracted Covid-19 and he could not make it to court for the hearing.

The matter had been listed for hearing on Tuesday and Wednesday. Two witnesses were present in court yesterday.

Kombo directed the matter be mentioned on March 24 when the court will be appraised of Sudi's health status and issue further directions in the case.

The last time the matter was in court, former head of examinations at Kenya Institute of Management John Mateshe testified that the diploma certificate in Business Management held by Sudi was forged.

Mateshe, led in his testimony by senior assistant Director of Public Prosecutions Riungu Gitonga, said their records prove that Sudi has never registered as a student of the institute.

 Sudi has been charged with forging a Diploma certificate in Business Management purporting it to be a genuine document issued by the Kenya Institute of Management.

He is also accused of forging his KCSE exam certificate purporting it to be a genuine document issued by the Kenya National Examination council. 

Mateshe was the tenth prosecution witness.

The witness told the court that a copy of his certificate presented to the institution by the anti-graft body was not a copy of a genuine document issued by KIM.

An official with the Kenya National Examinations Council has also testified in the case saying Sudi did not sit for the 2006 KCSE examinations as earlier alleged.

The Principal Examinations Secretary Nabiki Ene Kashu told Magistrate Kombo that Sudi did not register nor sit for the 2006 KCSE examination at Highway Secondary School.

Kashu said on September 17, 2015, they received a letter from the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission.

-Edited by SKanyara