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Racket issuing fake university papers unearthed

CUE chief executive David Some at Panari Hotel, Nairobi, on March 7 during a workshop on education. A report by CUE questioned storage and printing of certificates. PHOTO | NATION MEDIA GROUP

What you need to know:

  • Behind the scheme is a top administrator with Inoorero University who is now under investigation by the Directorate of Criminal Investigation.
  • Another graduate from the university was found with a fake degree certificate.
  • The investigation is as a result of concerns raised by an airline in Africa operating in Nairobi which discovered that one of its top employee’s in accounts had a ‘suspicious’ degree certificate.

A racket that involves production of fake and backdated degree certificates has been unearthed.

The degrees are from Inoorero University which was shut by higher education regulator in 2015 and granted a two years to enable its continuing students to finish their programmes after it was declared bankrupt.