Nairobi, April 3 -- A former General Manager Finance and ICT at the Rural Electrification and Renewable Energy (Rerec) has been charged with securing the job using a forged master degree certificate and receiving fraudulently Sh1.4m in salary from public coffers.

Mr Noah Okeche Oluoch aka Noah Oketch Oluoch was arraigned before Milimani anti-corruption court chief magistrate Thomas Nzioki for taking home fraudulently salary for five months from the electricity distributing agency.

Oluoch denied three counts filed against him then applied to be freed on bond saying he is not a flight risk.

Praying to be freed on a reasonable cash bail of Sh70,000, Oluoch claimed he had cooperated with the investigators from the EACC since August 2022. ...