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Former Highway Secondary School Principal Patrick Maritim on Thursday appeared in court to testify against Kapseret MP Oscar Sudi in a case in which he is charged with forging his academic certificates.
Maritim told trial Magistrate Felix Kombo that the two-time MP did not register or sit his Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examination at Highway Secondary School in 2006 as he had alleged. The former principal said that the school’s 2006 enrollment records did not show Sudi's name registered as a student at the institution.
"According to the records, Sudi did not sit for KCSE exams…Oscar Sudi’s name does not appear anywhere,” Maritim told the court.
Maritim also told the court that Sudi’s alleged index number (81) belonged to another student identified as Nicholas Otieno.
The hearing continued in the absence of MP Sudi for the second consecutive day after his lawyers on Wednesday told the court he was unwell and had traveled to Turkey for medical treatment.
But the magistrate noted that the evidence presented by his lawyers to back their claims did not disclose the details of the hospital in Turkey where Sudi is allegedly receiving treatment. On Thursday, the lawyers changed tune and told the court that Sudi was in Eldoret after allegedly missing his flight.
In this case, Sudi is charged with forging a Diploma Certificate in Business Management from the Kenya Institute of Management (KIM) and a KCSE certificate where he claims he sat for the exam at Highway Secondary School in Nairobi.
