A verification process conducted by the Kenya National Qualifications Authority has unearthed over 10,000 fraudulent certificates from government departments and agencies.
The process, aimed at authenticating qualifications, saw the authority receive 47,000 files from 400 government bodies, in response to a 2022 directive mandating the verification of employee credentials.
Chairman of the KNQA, Stanley Kiptis, said the flagged files have been returned to the respective institutions for further action. Kiptis underscored the initiative’s importance as it would help weed out unqualified individuals from public office and ensure integrity within the public service sector.
“We are urging all government entities to comply with the directive and submit their employees’ credentials for verification,” he said.
Institutions that are taxpayer-funded and employ staff should adhere to the directive, he added, while raising concerns about the slow progress of the verification process.
The authority expects to have a comprehensive understanding of the scope of the issue by the end of the year, when the exercise is expected to be 80 per cent complete.
KNQA is collaborating with the Ministry of Education and other stakeholders to create a national database of all issued certificates.
Additionally, all certificate-issuing institutions have been instructed to develop their own databases, which will be integrated into the KNQA system for efficient verification and retrieval.
He spoke during a public participation forum in Kisumu regarding the proposed KNQA General Regulations 2025.
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