(PHOTO) Speaker Boaz charged with breaking into, handling stolen property from Evans Ogutu’s office

Migori speaker Boaz Okoth (furthest right) and other seven co-accused in court

By MN Reporter.

Migori speaker Boaz Okoth was officially charge in court on Thursday for breaking into assembly’s principal finance office’s Evans Ogutu along other seven co-accuseds.

Okoth and others denied the charges before Chief Magistrate Dickson Onyango at Migori High Court.

The speaker was charged alongside Philip Ochieng’, Bonface Otieno, Peter Okinyi, John Harun, Vincent Otieno, Jackline Odira and Clifford Ochieng’ appeared as first to eight accused person respectively.

They were charged with breaking into Migori county assembly finance office belonging to Evance Ogutu and an alternative charge of handling stolen property worth about Sh100,000.

The items included three computers which were two CPUs, a monitor one and files.

The incident on happened in the night of February 2.

The accused persons advocate, Nelson Jura called for reasonable bond terms saying Okoth was released on Wednesday on Sh30,000 police bond over his health and otthers Sh10,000 police bond.

All accused persons denied the charges and were released on Sh200,000 bond and one surety, or a Sh100,000 cash bail.