BY NT CORRESPONDENT.
A businessman has been arraigned and charged in court with conspiring to defraud Nairobi City County by pretending he could get authority to carry out demolition works.
Stephen Otieno Oduor appeared before Milimani senior resident magistrate Muthoni Nzibe and pleaded not guilty to all the charges against him.
Otieno is alleged to have pretended that he was in a position to assist the Directors of Lexis International Limited get the said authority and another authority to excavate and transport soil on October 10.
Otieno is further charged with forgery where he allegedly forged an authority to carry out demolition works document and a demolition fee receipt on October 18 in Nairobi county.
According to the charge sheet presented before the court, accused purported that a genuine document issued by Pancras Wamwandu Mwakazi, an officer working with planning department in Nairobi City County government.
Otieno is also charged with obtaining Sh 90,000 from Francis Mukiti Muandikwa by claiming he was in a position to obtain the authorities at the Nairobi CBD.
He was released on a cash bail of 20,000 with an alternative bond of 20,000.
The matter will be mentioned on December 3.
