Two members of a community based organization management committee were on Tuesday arraigned in a court in Nakuru to answer charges of stealing money from the organization’s bank account.
Elias Waswa, 45, the chairperson, Benson Ouma, 40,the secretary general and Monica Nga’ng’a, 36, the treasurer of Nakuru Elite Group however denied before Chief Resident Magistrate James Mwaniki that they un lawfully withdrew a total sum of Sh250,000 from the organization’s bank account on diverse dates between December 2014 and March this year.
The prosecution desk told the court that the accused, who are the group’s bank account signatories, failed to account for the money they withdrew from the account during the group’s special general meeting that was held on March 31 this year.
The court was told that the accused, who have since been sacked from the committee by the group’s members maliciously masterminded to withdraw the money from the account without the mandate of the members and other committee members, apart from failing to account for it.
The prosecution held that the accused had tried to bribe other committee members and ordinary members of the group in a bid to cover up the crime, but were arrested by Criminal Investigations Officers and handed over to Nakuru Police Station on April 17, this year, after an independent audit report revealed that the said amount of money had been withdrawn from the account.
The court released the accused persons on a Sh100,000 cash bond each, and ordered them to hire an advocate before appearing in court on May 20.