A former accountant at the Nuclear Power and Energy Agency (NuPEA) has been fined KSh130,000 after pleading guilty to offences involving falsified academic documents used to secure employment.
Lilian Mweche Muyumba was convicted by Milimani Anti-Corruption Court Magistrate Ndombi in a judgment delivered on October 19, 2026, following a plea agreement with the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).
The court fined Muyumba KSh30,000 for uttering a false document and KSh100,000 for presenting a forged certificate. She will serve one year and two years in prison, respectively, if she fails to pay the fines.
According to the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC), investigations established that Muyumba submitted a forged Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) certificate purportedly showing that she sat her examinations at Moi Girls Secondary School, Nangili, in 1996.
The certificate was allegedly used to secure employment at NuPEA.
She had initially faced three charges: forgery of a KCSE certificate, uttering a false document contrary to Section 353 as read with Section 349 of the Penal Code, and presenting a forged certificate contrary to Section 34(a) of the Kenya National Examinations Council Act.
However, she pleaded guilty to the latter two charges under the agreement with the DPP.
The EACC welcomed the conviction, saying it served as a deterrent to individuals who falsify academic qualifications to obtain employment.
