BY IRENE ONYANGO.
A former employee in the ministry Foreign Affairs has been charged with an attempt to defraud a businessman of a land in Karen worth Sh 40 million.
Rose Jelagat Boit appeared before Milimani Chief Magistrate Wendy Kagendo and denied the land fraud charges.
The charge sheet stated that with intent to defraud, she conspired to defraud Abdi Rashid Abdul Sharifow of a land measuring approximately 0.200 hectares situated at Karen.
The court heard that she committed the offence jointly with others not before court by forging a letter of allotment dated on December 14, 1998 purporting to be a genuine letter.
Jelagat is also accused of forging the signature of P.N Mutwiwa, a deputy commissioner of land administration, purporting it to be genuine. She allegedly committed the offence on unknown dates and place.
She was further accused of knowingly and fraudulently uttering a false allotment letter alleged to be from the Ministry of Lands to inspector Samsom Lengopito on November 5, 2020.
The accused is charged with uttering a forged payment receipts dated October 14, 2020 for Sh 82,390 purporting it to be a genuine receipt issued by ministry of lands at Ardhi House.
While requesting to be released on lenient bail terms, her lawyer argued that the accused is a long serving civil servant who has worked with ministry of Foreign Affairs in Ethiopia, Zanzibar, among other countries in Africa.
She said she was not a flight risk since her residence is known by the police and none of of the witnesses set to testify in the case is known to her, so that she can be accused of planning to interfere with evidence.
The court also noted that Jelagat is suffering from high blood pressure and other chronic diseases and ordered her to post bond of Sh1 million or an alternative cash bail of Sh300,000.
The matter will be mentioned on October 31.
