Someone Helped You Do Late Birth Certificate Application? Get It Verified! Here Is Why

Getting statutory documents is not an easy thing as sometimes you have to spend weeks or even months in the application process. For example, sometimes back, an Identification Card could take up to 1 month to process.

Thanks to huduma centres that made work easier and reduced the waiting time to one month. it not only the IDs but also birth certificates, passports, and good conduct. You can actually give up on these if you are not patient enough here in Kenya.

There are people who always want to take advantage of every opportunity they get for bad. That’s how we have middlemen coming in as to help us get the statutory document. However, most of them are cons and they will siphon money from you and bring you fake documents. Here is a story of a Nairobi woman who has been printing fake documents

A woman was on Wednesday arraigned in a Nairobi court for allegedly printing and selling fake birth and death certificates at her house in Kawangware area.

The suspect, Jackline Kwamboka Abuga, was charged with the offence of forgery.

She was arrested following a trap laid by DCI detectives attached to the Immigration department.

“The suspect has been printing the birth & death certificates at her house in Kawangare & selling them to unsuspecting Kenyans. She was arrested a few days ago after detectives laid a trap for her,” said the DCI in a tweet.

A computer, printer, seal for civil registrations and other assorted documents were recovered from her house in Kawangware area.

According to the DCI, investigations are at an advanced stage to have all those involved in the fake certificates syndicate nabbed.