A retired teacher was arraigned in a Nakuru Law Court on Wednesday to face charges of fraudulently obtaining money from several parents at Racecourse Estate in Nakuru between November and December last year.
The court was told that the accused Alex Muigai 56, promised to offer private tuition services. The prosecution desk also said that the accused had advertised private tuition services to the area residents when schools closed in November and started receiving money from interested parents who had contacted him concerning the offer.
However, the accused had failed to offer the service and instead travelled to upcountry for the December festive season holiday without notifying the parents.
The prosecution desk told the presiding Chief Resident Magistrate Samuel Mungai that the accused had deliberately failed to honour the promise and subjected the parents to a loss.
The prosecution desk added that the accused had also deliberately failed to answer calls from the complainants who had sought to find out what had transpired.
According to the prosecution, the accused who was arrested on February 28 last month after he had been playing a hide and seek game with the complainants and law enforcers, pocketed a total of Sh10,000 from the parents fraudulently and was subject to face criminal charges involving fraud.
The accused however told the court that he had fallen sick after he traveled up country shortly and was unable to travel back in time to continue with the tuition plan.
He was released on a Sh30,000 cash bond until the hearing of the case on April 7.
Still in court, a hardware firm manager was also charged in the same court for allegedly stealing building material worth Sh200,000 from his employer between November 2014 and January 2015 this year.
The presiding Chief Resident Magistrate James Mwaniki was told that the accused, Oscar Nyakundi 36,who was an employee of Samifa Hardware along Nakuru–Nyahururu Highway failed to be accountable for building materials goods that were found missing after an audit accounting and stock taking was carried out early last month.
The court was told that counterfeit receipt books were discovered being in possession of the accused while some of his close confidants and workers at the firm confirmed that the accused had been dealing in hardware items selling dealings outside the shop.
According to the prosecution desk, the accused had deliberately sold the gods in question at a reduced price and failed to enter the proceeds records in the official book keeping documents of the firm.
The prosecution told the magistrate that the actions of the accused amounted to forgery, fraud and stealing from employer counts.
The accused who was represented by Lawyer James Ouma, however denied the charges indicating that the allegations were imaginary meant to tarnish his name by fellow employees who want to take over his position.
He was released on a cash bond of Sh300,000 awaiting the hearing of the case on March 30.