Six sent packing over fake licence printing

Nakuru, Kenya: Six employees have been sent on compulsory leave after they were linked to a syndicate involving printing of fake county licences.

This comes a day after the county government indefinitely suspended recruitment of interns in all its departments after it was found that some of them were involved in the 'licence' printing syndicate.

Nakuru County Secretary Joseph Motari said the six employees will help a team from Criminal Investigation office to unearth the extent of the scam.

"The county has been losing a lot of revenue to cartels who take advantage of the system to process fake permits. I can promise you that we will bring every culprit to book," said Mr Motari.

He said no intern will be recruited until the matter is settled since two of the people arrested on Monday were interns who had overstayed their attachment period.

"We are aware of reports that some senior revenue officials are using new interns to sneak county documents to cartels," he said.

Ghost WORKERS

He said some students had stayed at the county offices for one year instead of the three-month attachment period.

"We are beginning a serious audit on all our staff to ascertain who is who here. We have many ghost workers working against the county," he said.

Detectives on Monday arrested three other people and confiscated printing equipment in one of the premises within the town