BY NT CORRESPONDENT.
Two Eastleigh businessmen have been charged with stealing sugar in transit worth millions of shillings.
Adili Din Mohammed and Shukri Abdi Yakub appeared before Milimani Chief Magistrate Francis Andayi and pleaded not guilty to the charges.
They are accused that on between March 22 and April 9, 2029 jointly with others not before court they stole 4,200 bales of Kabras sugar valued at Sh 8,330,000 the property of West Kenya Sugar Company Limited.
The two businessmen are alleged to have stolen the sugar while on transit from West Kenya Sugar Limited at Timsales, Industrial area to Tusker Mattresses Limited head office in Embakasi along Mombasa road. The commodity was being ferried in two lorries.
Prosecution further charged the two accused persons with alternative charge of handling stolen goods.
State alleged that the were found with some 1130 bales of Kabras sugar at Mega wholesalers in Eastleigh estate. The sugar was valued at Sh 2.2 million and the police said they knew or had reason to believe it to be stolen.
Mohammed was charged with another different case relating to the same issue alongside Francis Gachanja Mungai with stealing 700 bales of Kabras sugar on 15th February 2019.
The two also faced an alternative charge of handling stolen goods after they were found with 184 bales of sugar worth Sh 174,300 at Gwanji General stores in Kayole.
Mohammed was released on a cash of Sh 200,000 or bond of Sh 500,000 while Yakub and Mungai were releases on cash bail of Sh 500,000 and 200,000 respectively.
The matters will be mentioned on September 9.
