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Nairobi Woman Charged with Drugging Husband and Robbing Him of Sh240,000

Nairobi Woman Charged with Drugging Husband and Robbing Him of Sh240,000

A 22-year-old woman has been charged with drugging and stealing Sh240,000 from her husband’s mobile money account.

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Caroline Wangui Wanjiku was charged alongside her aunt Esther Wambui and her uncle Peter Mwaura with conspiracy to commit a felony contrary to Section 393 of the Penal Code.

The three are accused of jointly colluding to steal the money from Francis Macharia Ndung’u in Nairobi’s Kayole estate on February 21st. Wanjiku was solely charged with administering a drug to Ndung’u on the same date in order to commit a felony.

The court heard that Wanjiku and Ndung’u were at their rental house on the night of February 20th and they had an altercation over infidelity claims before they went to bed.

The next day, Ndung’u woke up and found his wife missing from the house, having left behind their child and a house help. He phoned her but she did not pick up his calls.

He checked his MPesa account and found Sh240,000 had been transferred to his wife’s phone number. Ndung’u first went to a hospital and later reported the matter at Kayole police station.

Investigations established that Wanjiku drugged her husband and transferred the cash to herself before sending some of the money to her aunt Wambui, who in turn moved the cash to her husband Mwaura.

Mwaura withdrew the money and deposited it into Wanjiku’s bank account on February 21st. Police traced and arrested the three.

The three denied charges before Makadara law courts Senior Principal Magistrate Mary Njagi and were released on a bond of Sh120,000 with a surety of a similar amount or an alternative cash bail of Sh100,000 each.

The case will be mentioned on May 9th.
 

Comments (6)

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  1. MaggieFeb 25, 2023

    Kimeumana…

  2. MlandiziFeb 25, 2023

    Wives stealing from their husbands, children stealing from their parents, sons selling parent's property right from under them, and Pastors of Doom brainwashing unsophisticated believers and milking them dry. My motherland has become a cesspool of "hustlers".

  3. MaxileyFeb 26, 2023

    This is what happens when you try to fix'what ain't broke'.All moral,and ethical bounderies that restrained society are constantly ridiculed as archaic,and irrelevant,but are not replaced by better ones. Even the laws of the land are not respected... Man is indeed the urban beast.He will 'CORRECT'himself when he faces extinction.

  4. Kora KaniniFeb 26, 2023

    This is what happens when you use your little head to think.
    Most want to live in the fast lane without sweating.

  5. EzzyFeb 26, 2023

    What does this have to do with anything? Some kwanza.

  6. SimamaImaraFeb 27, 2023

    This is believed to be a nice Kikuyu women. She didn't kill the man as usually expected.

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