Two pastors have been charged for allegedly robbing their landlord of Sh370,000 and a wrist watch worth Sh25,000 inside his home in Karen, Nairobi.
It is believed that the two,Benson Muiruri Mucheru of House of Encounter Chapel and Joseph Zacharia Iyadi of African Transformers Youth Association, committed the crime on March 2, 2018 after their dispute with the landlord over rent.
The landlord Geoffrey Ngatia Njoroge leased them a parcel of land that allegedly did not belong to him for a year.
Reports indicate that the suspects allegedly committed the robbery with others who did not appear before the court. They threatened to use violence against the landlord.
Based on the lease, Njoroge shares his Karen compound with the churches of the two pastors’ churches.
The suspects received a notice for rent arrears of 12 months by an organisation that claimed ownership of the property. At that point they discovered they had been paying rent to the wrong person.
Njoroge was allegedly confronted by the two pastors and their associates at 11pm when a friend dropped him at the rear door of his house.
The men took Njoroge inside his house to discuss the rent issue and allegedly there was commotion in which he was robbed of the cash collected during a fundraiser at a hotel in Nairobi CBD.
However, the two pastors denied the charges before senior resident magistrate Charles Mwaniki of Kibera law courts.
They were freed on a Sh600,000 bond each with a surety of the same amount.
The case is scheduled to be mentioned on January 11.
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