A Tanzanian was on Tuesday charged before a Kisumu law court for forging a Kenya Secondary School leaving certificate.
Hamadi Mweru denied the charges before Kisumu Principal Magistrate Thomas Obutu for the offence he allegedly committed on March 9.
Mr Hamadi, who lives in Kisumu was arrested on the said date after presenting the forged document to an NGO that was recruiting new workers.
The prosecution said that the accused had a Tanzanian identification card but presented a Kenyan leaving certificate something that made the recruiters suspicious.
It was later discovered that the accused had not attended any secondary school, something that forced the recruiters to call in the police who made the arrest.
Mweru told the court that he attended a secondary school in Kuria.
The prosecution told the court that the school cited in the leaving certificate does not exist.
Mweru was released on cash bail of Sh20,000 with surety of a similar amount pending the hearing of the case on April 5, this year.
The prosecution had objected unsuccessfully to block the bid to grant the accused bail on grounds that he might leave the country in the course of the trial.