The Kenya Penal code Sec.101 states that "Any person who, being employed in the public service, does or directs to be done, in abuse of the authority of his office, any arbitrary act prejudicial to the rights of another is guilty of a felony."
Penalty for abuse of office.A person convicted of an offence of abuse of office under Kenya law is liable to a fine not exceeding one million shillings or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 10 years or to both.
List of offenses one can be charged with as abuse of office under Kenya law.
1.Unauthorized administration of oaths.Any person who administers an oath, or takes solemn declaration or affirmation or affidavit, touching any matter with respect to which he has not by law any authority to do so is guilty of a misdemeanour and is liable to imprisonment for one year.
2. Personating persons employed in the public service.Any person who -
(a) personates any person employed in the public service on an occasion when the latter is required to do any act or attend in any place by virtue of his employment; or
(b) 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 any act by virtue of such employment,
is guilty of a misdemeanour and is liable to imprisonment for three years.
3.False assumption of authority.Any person who -
(a) not being a judicial officer, assumes to act as a judicial officer; or
(b) without authority assumes to act as a person having authority by law to administer an oath or take a solemn declaration or affirmation or affidavit or to do any other act of a public nature which can only be done by persons authorized by law to do so; or
(c) represents himself to be a person authorized by law to sign a document testifying to the contents of any register or record kept by lawful authority, or testifying to any fact or event, and signs such document as being so authorized, when he is not, and knows that he is not, in fact, so authorized,
is guilty of a misdemeanour.