Over 1,000 Kenya Ports Authority staff hold imaginary academic papers, audit reveals

Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) Workers leave the Mombasa Industrial Court after a ruling on their case on Tuesday 22nd September. The court ruled out Mungatana from representing the workers in the case and asked KPA to go on with their activity of sacking incompetent or those workers who forged their education certificates. [Photo/Kelvin Karani/STANDARD]

Some 962 workers and 423 managers at the Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) have nonexistent academic certificates or qualifications, a forensic audit has revealed.

Confidential documents filed at a Mombasa court have shed new light on the fake certificate employment scam at KPA, which has already sacked 132 disgraced workers, including 25 lower and middle-level managers.