Nairobi County Assembly Speaker Benson Mutura has been released on a cash bail of Ksh.500,000 following his summon on charges of stealing by a public servant. The Speaker is accused of fraudulently including his name in a number of county travel lists, pocketing money without travelling.
Court charges read that the speaker is said to have between 1st day of Febreuary 2021 and 28th February 2022, being the speaker of Nairobi county Assembly stole Ksh.5,348,984 the property of the County Government of Nairobi which came into possession by virtue of his employment.
Mutura went ahead on Wednesday to claim that the fights are political after he recently declared his support for Deputy President William Ruto and left from Jubilee to United Democratic Alliance (UDA).
On Friday speaker Mutura was presented before Milimani Senior Principal Magistrate Esther Kimilu who also hit him with an alternative bond of Ksh.1 million. His lawyer pleaded with the court to release him arguing that his arrest was simply meant to embarrass him.
Mutura spent Thursday night at the Muthaiga Police Station where he was confined following day-long interrogations at the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) headquarters.
Magistrate Esther Kimilu set to mention of the matter on May 16, 2022, further directing Speaker Mutura not to interfere with investigations.