The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) has arraigned former Garissa County Government Chief Protocol Officer over claims of forging academic certificates to fraudulently secure employment and thereby pocket millions of public funds.
Khadija Abdullahi Bare, who served in the county between 2017 and 2021, was arrested on June 12, 2025, and presented before the Garissa Law Courts, where she was charged with multiple offences, including fraudulent acquisition of public property, deception, forgery, and uttering false documents.
According to EACC, Bare used a forged Bachelor of Arts (Sociology & Political Science) degree certificate, allegedly from the University of Nairobi, to land the role of Chief Protocol Officer.
“On diverse dates between November 27, 2017 and May 24 2021, within Garissa County, being a public officer employed at the County Government of Garissa as a Chief Protocol Officer, you fraudulently acquired public property amounting to Ksh.6,825,266.40 from the said County Government of Garissa based on a forged academic document namely a Bachelor of Arts (In Sociology & Political Science) degree certificate purportedly awarded on December 7, 2012 from University of Nairobi, a fact you knew to be false,” read court documents.
In a second count, she was charged with deceiving a principal, with the charge indicating that, “on or about the November 29, 2017… You knowingly and intentionally provided forged academic documents… to James Mukoma the Human Resources Officer for purposes of employment to the position of Chief Protocol Officer.”
The third count accuses her of forgery while in the fourth count, she is accused of uttering a false document contrary to the law.
She was released on a cash bail of Ksh.100,000 or bond of Ksh.500,000.
