BY SAM ALFAN.
Moyale Equity Bank Operations Manager has been arraigned before a Nairobi court and charged with robbery with violence.
Roba Boru Diba appeared before Milimani Principal Magistrate Kennedy Cheruiyot and denied the charge of violently robbing Sh 47 million the property of Equity Bank Moyale branch.
He also face a second count that on September 11, 2019 at ODDA Airstrip in Moyale jointly with others not before court while armed with pistol robbed Sh 47 million from Nelson Kipngetich Langat of Wells Fargo limited.
Kipngetich was escorting the said cash property of Equity Bank and immediately before or after the time of such robbery threatened to shoot the said him.
He was released on a cash bail of 1.5 million and alternative bond of 2 million.
The criminal case will be heard on November 4, 2019.
Earlier the court detained Boru and Kipngetich a Wells security company officer for 10 days to allow police complete investigations over disappearance of Sh 42 million from the lender.
However , the security guard is now a state witness.
They were detained after officers attached to the Special Crimes Prevention Unit filed an application seeking to detain the two for 21 days.
They were escorted to the DCI headquarters in Nairobi upon fresh evidence indicating that they were linked to the disappearance of Sh42 million from Equity Bank, Moyale branch.
The police told the court the investigation have commenced to trace the entire group of persons involved and recovery of the Sh 42 million. The court heard that there was compelling reasons to detain the accused in custody.
In their affidavit, the officer said upon arrival at the ODDA- Airstrip Moyale, it is alleged that three men armed persons emerged and moved the consignment containing the money in question while using motorbikes ordering all of them to lie down.
Preliminary investigations reveal that the two were aware of the regulations and security standards to be governed to have directed the pilot not to land at the ODDA-Airstrip Moyale at the material time noting that no proper security measures had been put in place.
Forensic investigation and analysis is ongoing to enable the DCI officers to trace where the money is and connect all the persons involved and if the suspects be released they will interfere with investigations especially the tracing of the money.
“There is a high likelihood of the Roba Diba Boru and Langat Kipngetich Nelson interfering and intimidating the key probable witnesses if released before we secure all the evidence and the consequences arising thereafter will be so severe as it will be too late to salvage the situation and therefore justifiable to subject them to continued detention,” the affidavit stated.
