A 40-year-old man was on Monday arraigned before a Nakuru court for allegedly stealing domestic animals from his former employer in Njoro. According to the prosecution, police found two goats that had been reported missing two days earlier from Taru farm in Kikapu village of Njoro sub-county in Peter Kiplimo’s home and arrested him. The prosecution added that Kiplimo had once worked as an attendant at the farm and was familiar with the farm’s settings and that was why he was suspected by the farm’s owner, David Kipng’eno, before reporting the matter to the police. The court further heard that although other employees of the farm were suspected to have had a dealing in the animals’ theft, the suspect who is a relative to the farm’s owner and who lives at a bushy piece of land that the farm owner donated to him was a first suspect as he had been fired a few month ago for similar behaviours. The prosecution added that the suspect, according to police investigations, had intended to secretly transport the animals to a slaughterhouse to gain financially. Chief resident magistrate Patrick Mwaniki remanded the suspect until the case’s hearing on November 13 after he failed to raise a bond of Sh50,000.

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