Police are in pursuit of a woman believed to have disappeared with Sh5 million from former Gusii spokesperson Simion Nyachae's Spring Valley home.
Ms. Lilian Maina, reports the Standard, is still at large since October 7, when it emerged that the money was missing from the bedroom of one of Nyachae's wives, Grace Wamuyu.
The house helps daughter, Grace Mbugua, was arraigned to court on Wednesday on grounds that she drove her mother to Kitengela the day the money is believed to have been stolen.
“Does she have an obligation to show the police where the suspect is? Is she an accomplice?” Milimani Law Courts Magistrate Kennedy Cheruyiot said before setting Mbugua free unconditionally. https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2001301101/nyachae-s-house-girl-missing-after-loss-of-sh5-million-from-nairobi-home
According to the detectives, it would be hard for them to arrest Ms. Maina should her daughter be released from custody.
Detectives further argued that she was best placed to explain her mother's whereabouts, a claim which the Magistrate dismissed.
"We started investigations and Ms Mbugua was arrested on October 29 on the strength of phone calls data which showed she had picked up the suspect and escorted her to Kitengela,” the police said in an affidavit.
The affidavit added: "The police believe the young woman has information on the whereabouts of the key suspect." They argued that it would be difficult to arrest her mother and recover the stolen money if she was released.
Ms. Wamuyu travelled to London to check on her ailing husband before returning to Kenya on October 7, the date she realised that the money which was in dollars was nowhere to be seen.
Nyachae has been in a London Hospital since April this year after he started complaining of chest pains.
Before exiting from politics in 2007, the former powerful minister was de facto spokesperson of Abagusii community.