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…It was, in the learned judge’s view, a question whether the Public Service Commission had the right to engage and retain employees who are trustworthy, and to dismiss those who are not.…

…This view coloured an attitude to regulation 25 of the Public Service Regulations, so much so that a probation order came to be seen as tantamount to an acquittal.…

…The offence of personating a person employed in the public service is covered by section 105(b) of the Penal Code.…

…It states;- “Where any person who falsely represents himself to be a person employed in the public service, and assumes to do any act or to attend in any place for the purpose of doing an act by virtue of such employment…

…The first appellant faced one count alleging fraudulent false accounting contrary to section 330(a) of the Penal Code; and faced a second count which alleged stealing by a person employed in the public service contrary to…

…The third appellant faced one count alleging fraudulent false accounting contrary to section 330(a) of the Penal Code, and also faced another count alleging stealing by a person employed in the public service contrary to…

….................RESPONDENT (Appeal from the High Court at Kisumu, Schofield J) JUDGMENT The appellant was convicted by the Resident Magistrate at Kisumu of the offence of stealing Shs 14,500 by a person employed in the Public…

…Service, contrary to section 280 Penal code, and sentenced to twelve months’ imprisonment.…

….................RESPONDENT (Appeal from the High Court at Kisumu, Schofield J) JUDGMENT The appellant was convicted by the Resident Magistrate at Kisumu of the offence of stealing Shs 14,500 by a person employed in the Public…

…Service, contrary to section 280 Penal code, and sentenced to twelve months’ imprisonment.…