A senior administration secretary with the Ministry of Interior, Dorcas Njeru Mugo has been arraigned at the Milimani Law Courts over the forged title saga.According to detectives, Mugo presented a forged title deed to bail out her daughter who had been charged with obtaining Sh34million from a businessman by falsely pretending that she had tenders to supply meat to two embassies in Nairobi.Milimani Senior Principal Magistrate,
Bernard Ochoi issued the order for Mugo to be turned over to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) detectives for examination in order to ascertain the veracity of the title deed.
Mugo had presented the title deed in court to secure the release of her daughter, Esther Muthoni Muiruri. According to evidence produced in court by Mugo, a title deed for a property in Ruiru used to bail out a suspect in another criminal case was presented to the judge.
James Gachoka, the Prosecuting Attorney, expressed concern regarding the title document that Dorcas had given and claimed she had developed some projects on the quarter-acre of land. She presented images of rental properties, which the court observed are comparable to those presented in the other criminal case currently being heard there. Under oath, Mugo said to the court that the value of her property exceeded the Sh10million bail her daughter was given by Sh12.3million.
“These are two valuation reports relating to different parcels of land but with photographs of the same houses. I believe there is an attempt to hoodwink the court to approve surety with questionable documents,” the prosecutor said. On July 12, it was discovered that Muthoni had duped Duncan Maranga Mbici out of Sh34million by purporting to say that her business, Bellas Casa Agencies, had won a contract to provide meat to the Embassies of Kuwait and Qatar.
She was detained at Lang’ata Women’s Prison pending release on a Sh10million bond or Sh5million cash bail after she disputed 30 counts of gaining money by deception and falsifying purchase orders.
A mother of two, Muthoni is charged with scamming Mbici of the enormous sum of money between June and July 2021.According to the prosecution, the accused asked Mbici to support her business enterprise with the Embassies of Kuwait and Qatar for the supply of meat.
“You are charged with defrauding Mbici over Sh34million pretending that your joint company, Bellas Casa Agencies Limited (BCAL) had been issued with a Purchase Order No13/76 for Credit Trading Limited (CTL) to supply Meat to Embassies of Kuwait and Qatar,” the charges against Muthoni read.