BY NT CORRESPONDENT.
A security guard from KK Company has told a Nairobi court that he identified three accused persons who ordered the breaking in of an office door at Oilibya petrol station Juja on June 27, 2017.
Ben Bako told Milimani Chief Magistrate Martha Mutuku that he identified the five- two women and three men, who broke into the station and stole property worth Sh1.5 million.
Joyce Nekoye Wanjala, Nancy Waeni Mutune, Antony Mugo, Stanley Njoroge and Samuel Marete are accused of breaking and entering Juja service station where they stole property worth Sh1,530,000, belonging to Maced Limited.
They are also charged with stealing ten units of CCTV cameras worth Sh400,000, a digital video recorder valued at Sh200,000, gas cylinders approximated at Sh200,000, lubricants valued at Sh500,000, car wash vacuum cleaner worth Sh30,000 and fuel of an approximated value of Sh200,000.
They are also accused that on June 7, 2017 at Juja road Service Station they willfully and unlawfully damaged 5 door padlocks valued at Sh12,500 the property of Maced Limited.
Maced Limited is said to have been in agreement with Libya Oil Kenya Limited to operate the Oilibya Juja Road Service Station and resell Oilbya products at the service station.
According to Oilbya, Maced was in breach of agreement and failed to maintain the minimum inventory levels and having unpaid cheques in respect to products delivered to Maced by Libya Oil Kenya Limited.
Thereafter Maced Limited made a criminal complaint alleging breaking and entry in to the Service Station and theft of property where three of their employees Waeni Kwainga, Anthony Muraya and Joyce Wanjala as well as Libya Oil Kenya Limited employee Samuel Marete were then charged in court on August 2017.
Thereafter on January 23, 2018 the prosecution withdrew charges against all the accused persons after a claim by the DPP that the matter is a civil one, and should referred to arbitration.
But they were later charged with breaking and stealing and were released on a cash bail of 100,000 each.
