Corruption is yet to seize within the country. Three people were yesterday charged with fraudulently obtaining Ksh1.2 million in a fake Kenya Defense Forces (KDF) recruitment scheme. The three, namely Andrew Musungu, Josephat Barasa and Reagan Shahenza, were accused of obtaining the money from Kakamega residents with the false promise to getting their children to join the Kenya Defense Forces.
Prosecutor of the case, Paul Juma, told the court that the three had forged KDF document and that one of them had skipped court in an earlier case he was accused of a similar offence. In the one instance, they fraudulently obtained Ksh 504,650 from the parents of Faith Khaombi to help her join the academy during the recruitment Bukhungu Stadium, Kakamega, in December 2018. The three also conned Mary Abona of Ksh 733,250 while promising her that they could secure her son a spot in KDF. The three are, therefore, facing thirteen counts of defrauding the public from February 20 to June 18, 2018.
“The accused face separate charges of forging KDF identification cards and purporting to be genuine,” stated Juma. Appearing before Chief magistrate Bildad Ochieng’, the three, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges labelled against them. The prosecutor, further, asked the court not to release one of the accused, Mr Musungu, on grounds that he had been freed on a Ksh 100,000 bond for a similar offence. The other two were released on a Ksh1 million bond each with Musungu remaining in custody.