By Burning Splint Writer
A Trans Mara man has been jailed for seven years after a court found him
guilty of stealing five cows worthSh150,000.
The accused, Stephen Chacha is said to have stolen the cows belonging to Samuel
Murget at Ngoperai area of Trans Mara on August 18 last year.
Appearing before the Kilgoris Principal Magistrate Bernard Ochieng’ the complainant
told the court that on the fateful day he discovered his cows were missing while
driving his heard home in the evening after grazing them.
He added that he immediately informed his neighbours who searched the
animals to no avail before reporting the matter to the area chief who reported
the matter in the neighbouring Kuria East district where the animals were
spotted.
“We were informed by the area chief that the cows have been spotted at the
accused home after which we went there and confirmed it,” Murget told the
court.
But in mitigation the accused said he found the cows wondering in the
grazing field without a herder and took them home for safety saying he “only
took the cows to my home because they did not appear to have an owner.”
But in his ruling the magistrate found the accused guilty as charged
saying since cattle rustling was rampant in the area causing conflict the
sentence will “serve as a lesson to others with similar motives.
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