How law enforcer forged to land on mi*lions
Details of how a senior police officer based in the Nairobi region forged papers and earned millions of shillings in special allowances have emerged.
A probe by the Internal Affairs Unit (IAU) revealed how Chief Inspector David Ochieng Onyango who has been working as the quality assurance officer forged papers and was performing legal duties as an advocate of the High Court of Kenya and drawing allowances and privileges.
Between February 2015 and June 2018 only, Ochieng was paid a total of Sh2,259,193 as non-practising allowance and special legal allowance which he was not qualified for save for the exgratia provision, according to the probe Ochieng had submitted a Certificate of Admission with his name bearing the admission number P105/9752/2012 but investigations later revealed that the admission number belonged to Salem Dick Lorot, who was his friend and colleague at the Catholic University of East Africa (CUEA) where they were studying law.
The officer joined the Administration Police Service (APS) in March 2011 and after graduating as a Constable, he was retained at the AP Police Training College as an instructor in the legal faculty.
He was also deployed at the Legal Office at the AP headquarters. Investigations revealed that he never qualified as an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya since he never graduated from the Kenya School of Law.
Instead, he forged a certificate of admission which he presented to the service but was not verified as per the procedures since ‘he had blessings from the then AP administration’.
