{"id":192844,"date":"2025-03-05T05:50:55","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T03:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-four-iebc-staff-to-be-prosecuted-over-fake-kcse-academic-papers\/"},"modified":"2025-03-05T05:50:55","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T03:50:55","slug":"kenya-four-iebc-staff-to-be-prosecuted-over-fake-kcse-academic-papers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-four-iebc-staff-to-be-prosecuted-over-fake-kcse-academic-papers\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Four IEBC Staff to Be Prosecuted Over Fake KCSE Academic Papers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>Four staff members of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) are set to face multiple criminal charges, including forgery, following the approval of their prosecution by the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">This comes after the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) established that they used forged academic certificates to secure employment at the electoral body.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">According to the EACC, the suspects, including three assistant election officers and a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503040397.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 Four staff members of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) are set to face multiple criminal charges, including forgery, following the approval of their prosecution by the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP). This comes after the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) established that they used forged academic certificates to secure employment at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":192845,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[14155,258,256,6891,10985,17426,4688,430,257,6956,7575,254,6221],"class_list":["post-192844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-academic","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-fake","tag-iebc","tag-kcse","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-papers","tag-prosecuted","tag-south-africa-today","tag-staff"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}