{"id":120526,"date":"2025-08-29T07:07:01","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T07:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/08\/29\/former-ncwsc-ict-assistant-fined-sh14-6mn-for-fraudulent-acquisition-of-public-funds\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T07:07:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T07:07:01","slug":"former-ncwsc-ict-assistant-fined-sh14-6mn-for-fraudulent-acquisition-of-public-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/former-ncwsc-ict-assistant-fined-sh14-6mn-for-fraudulent-acquisition-of-public-funds\/","title":{"rendered":"Former NCWSC ICT Assistant fined Sh14.6mn for fraudulent acquisition of public funds"},"content":{"rendered":"

NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug 29 \u2013 The Nairobi Anti-Corruption Court has convicted a former ICT Assistant at the Nairobi City Water and Sewerage Company (NCWSC), for fraudulently acquiring public funds amounting to Sh7,123,963 using a forged academic certificate.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The judgment was delivered by the Nairobi Anti-Corruption Principal Magistrate Charles Ondieki, who found Lawrence Masinde Barasa, guilty on three counts relating to the fraudulent acquisition of public property, uttering a false document, and deceiving a principal.<\/p>\n

The court heard that Barasa had forged a Diploma in Information Technology certificate purportedly issued by the Eldoret Polytechnic, which he used to secure employment at NCWSC.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Through this position, he unlawfully obtained over Sh7.1 million in salaries and benefits.<\/p>\n

In his ruling, Justice Ondieki fined Barasa Sh100,000 for the first count of fraudulent acquisition of public property and imposed a mandatory fine of Sh14,347,926, equivalent to twice the amount illegally obtained, as provided for under the law.<\/p>\n

In default of paying these fines, Barasa will serve a total of two years\u2019 imprisonment.<\/p>\n

On the second count of forgery, the accused was acquitted due to insufficient evidence.<\/p>\n

However, he was convicted on the third count of uttering a false document and fined Sh100,000<\/strong> or serve one year in prison in default.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnder Count III, the Accused is sentenced to pay a fine of Kshs. 100,000, default of which he shall serve a term of imprisonment of one year,\u201d the court ruled<\/p>\n

For the fourth count of deceiving a principal, Barasa was similarly fined Sh100,000, <\/strong>with a default sentence of one year\u2019s imprisonment.<\/p>\n

The court directed that all default sentences would run consecutively.<\/p>\n

Barasa has 14 days to appeal the sentence.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug 29 \u2013 The Nairobi Anti-Corruption Court has convicted a former ICT Assistant at the Nairobi City Water and Sewerage Company (NCWSC), for fraudulently acquiring public funds amounting to Sh7,123,963 using a forged academic certificate. The judgment was delivered by the Nairobi Anti-Corruption Principal Magistrate Charles Ondieki, who found Lawrence Masinde Barasa, guilty […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}