Controller of Budget Margaret Nyakang’o reveals how she was arrested in Nairobi and driven to Mombasa
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Controller of Budget Margaret Nyakang'o break silence on her controversial arrest and arraignment in Mombasa that started off in Nairobi
Controller of Budget Margaret Nyakang’o break silence on her controversial arrest and arraignment in Mombasa that started off in Nairobi.
Nyakang’o in an interview with Citizen TV stated that she was playing golf in Karen on Monday before returning home.
However, after arriving at her home, she was informed by cops, who had trailed her in a vehicle, that she was required to go and record a statement with the police.
She persuaded the officers to take the statement from her home office, but they declined.
The Controller of Budget revealed that one of the policemen had even told her to acquire some warm clothes, which suggested that they intended to detain her for the night.
Nyakang’o added that she was then escorted to the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) Banking Fraud Department. However, she did not record a statement.
“One of the officers advised me to get clothing that would keep me warm and I did not understand. I was taken to the CBK department that deals with fraud and never recorded a statement.
“The officers informed me that they had been directed to take me to Mombasa and advised my husband to head back home,” she stated.
According to Nyakang’o she was driven to Mombasa on Monday night and arrived at the Coastal city on Tuesday morning.
The CoB stated that they arrived in Mombasa at approximately 7:30 am.
She indicated that the detectives who had accompanied her to Mombasa then handed her over to their colleagues in Mombasa before she was presented in Court.
At the Mombasa Law Courts, Nyakang’o was charged with defrauding someone Ksh 29 million.
She was also accused of operating FEB Sacco Society Limited without a valid licence from the Sacco Regulatory Authority and forging someone’s signature in 2019.
Nyakang’o says that back in 2019, she saw a call from a Sacco that needed someone to sit on its board.
She expressed interest to one of the officials in Nairobi where she was informed there was a plan to expand the Fountain Enterprise Program Sacco by bringing experts on board.
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She says she was asked to sign up as a member which she did by filling the registration forms.
Nyakang’o says she was advised to save up to Ksh.100,000 by the time of holding of the Sacco’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) when she would be elected to sit on the board.
She says that in October 2019, she was interviewed and vetted for the Controller of Budget job and when she learnt she had been successful, she approached the Sacco saying she needed to exit.
She says she converted her saving of about half a million shillings into two plots of land which she topped up to secure.
The Controller of Budget says she later learned during the investigations into the Sacco that she had been listed as part of the board despite not having been elected in an AGM. She says she told the investigator in the case as much who looked satisfied and left.
During the interview, she questioned the circumstances surrounding her arrest, wondering why she was the only one out of the 11 accused to be arraigned in court.
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