A Sub-Chief from Garissa was today arraigned before Milimani Law Courts in Nairobi for fraudulently procuring a Kenyan registration of Birth to a Somali National.
Mohamud Mohamed Khalif, the Assistant Chief at Shabah Sub-location in Garissa County is said to have given misleading information about a Somali National, an information which led to the fraudulent acquisition of a Kenyan Birth Certificate to the Somali National.
According to the charge sheet, the Sub-Chief on March 6, 2024 informed a Civil Registration officer in Garissa County that the information contained in application forms for late registration of birth of one Yahye Abdisalan Ahmed of Somali origin was true making the Civil Registration officer to prepare and issue a birth certificate which ought not to have been issued where it not for the misleading information.
He was also charged with the abuse of office for using his position as an assistant Chief to issue a register of birth which necessitated the issuance of birth certificate in abuse of the authority of his office.
Appearing before Chief Magistrate Susan Shitubi, the accused sub-chief denied the charges and was released on Ksh 1m bond with an alternative cash bail of Ksh 500,000.