Govt economist who promoted and transferred himself arrested in Thika
Detectives have arrested a suspended civil servant accused of forging letters impersonating senior officials to influence police recruitment, in what the DCI calls a pattern of deception spanning multiple government departments...
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A civil servant, Maroa Sammy Maroa, an economist with the State Department for Cabinet Affairs, has been arrested in Thika for allegedly orchestrating repeated forgery schemes, including impersonating senior government officials.
- Maroa was apprehended in Ngoigwa, Thika West Sub-county, following an intelligence-led operation by DCI.
- He is accused of forging a letter to the National Police Service Commission (NPSC), recommending recruits, and previously promoting himself to Director and transferring himself to the State Department for Housing.
- Maroa was already under suspension for a separate forgery case and faces charges at the Kahawa Law Courts.
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