ROSEMARY ODINGA PERSONAL ASSISTANT CHARGED WITH THEFT.

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Opposition leader daughter Rosemary Odinga personal assistance John Ayub Oduor with his wife Christine Jane Anyango before Nairobi Court on Monday February 11,2019./PHOTO BY S.A.N.

BY SAM ALFAN.

A Personal Assistant with ODM Leader Raila Odinga’s daughter Rosemary has been charged before a Nairobi Court with stealing cash Sh 245,000.

John Ayub Oduor is charged alongside and his wife Christine Jane Anyango before Milimani Chief Magistrate Francis Andayi were they denied the theft charges levelled against them by the state.

Prosecution alleges that on or before November 15, 2018 at unknown place the couple jointly conspired to steal Sh 245,000 the property of Rosemary Adhiambo Odinga from her NIC bank account.

Oduor is alone also accused that on diverse dates between November 15, 2018 and February 5, 2019 at Karen in Nairobi, stole cash 245,000 from Rosemary.

Anyango is accused that on the same date at Target Network Limited in Nairobi, unlawfully made use of a National Identity card in the name of David Munyasia Peter and registered Safaricom Simcard and Mpesa.

The magistrate ordered each of the accused persons to be released on a bond 200,000 or a cash bail of 100,000.

The opposition leader daughter reported that on February 5 this year, she realized that there fraudulent withdrawals from her NIC account domiciled at NIC bank , ABC branch.

The fraudulent withdrawals amounted to shilling 275,000 and were channeled to safaricom number.

Investigation revealed that Oduor acts as the complaints personal assistant sometimes in the month of September called the second accused and instructed her to register Safaricom line for him.

Christine Onyango is the wife of Oduor and operates a Mpesa shop. She registered the line in the name of David Munyasia Peter and threw the ID away.

Oduor helps Rosemarry to make transactions from her NIC bank Mobile application. While helping her from November 2018 to February 2019 to make M-banking transactions, the second accused sent the 275,000 fraudulently to safaricom number and later withdrew the money at his wife’s Mpesa shop.

First accused was arrested while reporting at work by Banking Fraud Investigative Unit (BFIU)officers and led the officers to his wife Mpesa shop where she was arrested.

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