Twelve employees linked to the disappearance of Sh160 million from National Intelligence Services’ (NIS) Njiwa Sacco were on Monday presented at the Kahawa Law Court.
The suspects include Sacco’s internal auditor, a loans manager, an accountant, two system analysts, a teller, an employee of a third-party IT consulting firm, NIS officers, and a former employee of Sacco.
Their arraignment comes in the wake of ongoing cleanup at the Sacco to ensure rogue officials are weeded out.
The Sacco has since sacked all employees implicated from their positions.
The clean-up at the intelligence unit comes barely months after Noordin Haji took over office from Major General Phillip Kameru.
The prosecution on Monday presented a 57-page charge sheet with 232 charges against the accused.
The charges range from abuse of office, conspiracy to defraud, and stealing by servant forgery among others.
The twelve officers through lawyer Danstan Omari had challenged the charges on the grounds that the charge sheet was defective.
Senior Principal Magistrate Bowas Ombewa noted that there are no guidelines laid out in the number of charges the prosecution has to put in a charge sheet.
Ombewa said he will make his ruling on Tuesday at 10am to determine whether to have the DPP amend the charge sheet and the bond terms.
The twelve employees are expected to take a plea over the disappearance of Sh 160 million from the savings society.
