Two welfare group officials were on Monday arraigned in a court in Nakuru to answer to charges of fraud. John Muturi, 50, and Francis Mureithi, 48, being chairman and treasurer respectively of Central Welfare Group that comprises of a section of Nakuru Teachers Training College employees denied the charges. It was claimed that on diverse dates in November to date they maliciously and arrogantly deducted money from the salary of Gilbert Nderitu long after he wrote a letter to the group’s management committee requesting to resign from the group. The presiding Chief Resident Magistrate Samuel Mungai was told by the prosecution desk that the accused persons had failed to stop deducting a sum of Sh 500 from the complainant’s salary through a check off system after he resigned from the welfare group. They also refused to refund him his accumulated shares amounting to Sh 30,000 claiming that the group’s by-laws did not allow for a refund of shares. The prosecution told the court that the complainant’s continued complaints and petitions to officials and through college’s management had proved futile and that he suffered frustrations and financial crisis following actions of accused persons who were the chief financial decision makers of the welfare group. According to the prosecution, the law prohibits any person or group of people to get money from another person’s salary or savings account without a written permission from the owner. The prosecution told the court that the actions by the accused persons were criminal offences that had had a great psychological, physical and financial impact against the complainant. The accused were released on a Sh 50,000 cash bond each. The case resumes on June 19 for hearing.

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