From: Leo Odera Omolo
Date: Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 4:47 AM
Writes Leo Odera Omolo In Kisumu City.
A GOOD number of staff and employees of the Muhoroni district based Chemelil Sugar Company are facing court prosecution following the discovery that some of them had gained employment with the company on the strength of fake academic and training certificates.
A source at the facility revealed that the matter come to the surface, when the company Human Resources department sent dozens of academic and training certificates to the various institutions in Nairobi for verification and approval of the certificates and their origins.
The institutions discovered that most of the certificates presented to them were fake and contacted the police to investigate their sources.
On hearing that the matter had been handed to the police, some of the employees, most of them in the categories of junior and senior clerical officers, supervisors, mechanics, technicians, and medium class managers, voluntarily tendered their resignation before the police closed in, while others took to their heels, absconded and disappeared in the thin air
Only about 40 have been taken to court and bonded. Their cases will come up for hearing early in January next year.
During the investigation process, some of the workers wrote letters voluntarily tendering their resignation from the company, ahead of the police action. Some of the employees who were suspected to have gained employment using fake certificates, had gained senior position and even became too arrogant and powerful than the workers with the genuine academic qualifications, owing to their use of God fathers.
A company spokesman said the matter is with the police and he declined to elaborate, only directing this writer to obtain details from the police in either Ahero Police station or Kisumu Divisions Police station for heir comments.
The same source revealed that some of the affected employees were holding key positions in the various departments and sections, and the verification of certificates was just the normal practice by many companies to ensure the efficiency of their staff and employees and there is nothing sinister in it.
Other sources alleged that the recruitment of workers, who were armed with fake certificates, took place during the management of the former Managing Director of Chemelil Sugar Company, Prof. Julius Omondi Nyabundi’s tenure of office.
Workers were recruited on nepotism and clannish, irrespective
whether they qualified for the positions or not.
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leooderaomolo@yahoo.com
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Subject: WORKERS WITH FAKE ACADEMIC AND TRAINING CERTIFICATES PURGED AT THE CHEMELIL SUGAR COMPANY AS OTHERS FLED AND DISAPPEARED IN THE THIN AIR