Kenyan lady allegedly sets her Nigerian boyfriend’s house on fire

A Kenyan lady has been captured and arraigned in court for purportedly setting her ex-boyfriend’s house on fire.

Agreeing to reports, the 25-year-old woman crushed property worth Sh120,000.

The woman recognized as Persistence Cherotich is blamed of setting fire to the house found at TRM Drive in Kasarani, Nairobi on Eminent 10, 2023.

“On the 10th day of Admirable, 2023, at Veeland Lofts, you did willfully and unlawfully set fire to a structure utilized as a room, esteemed at Sh120,000, having a place to Benjamin Obeten,” peruses the charge sheet.

The charged and the complainant within the case were in a cherish undertaking but broke up.

Cherotich at that point asked Obeten, a Nigerian national, to permit her to visit him at his domestic and he concurred.

In any case, as before long as she arrived, she is said to have caused chaos within the house, whereas purportedly undermining to slaughter Obeten, inciting him to call for offer assistance from the apartment’s security watches, and the charged was constrained out of the house.

But after investing hours within the cold, Obeten took feel sorry for on her and permitted her back into the house to spend the night and return to her domestic within the morning.

She rested on a sofa in Obeten’s sitting room, and supposedly started slamming on the complainant’s room entryway at around 5am requesting to be let in.

Cherotich raged into the room after Obeten opened the entryway to inquire her to halt making a mess, and the complainant got out and went into the living room, clearing out her alone within the room.

After a couple of minutes, she came out and inquired for a taxi admission and Obeten gave her Sh1,200 some time recently she rapidly cleared out.

A couple of minutes afterward, he learned that the house was on fire after he saw smoke. He hurried in to discover bedding and other things on fire.

The fire had devoured the complete bed, bedding and a few things some time recently he quenched it with the assistance of neighbors.

Obeten afterward detailed the matter to Kasarani Police Station and the denounced was followed and captured after examinations were completed.

She denied the charges some time recently Senior Central Judge Agnes Mwangi of Makadara Law Courts on September 13, and, through a attorney, argued for tolerant safeguard conditions.

She told the court that she was a single motherof a seven-year-old boy who was cleared out without care after her capture.

Cherotich was discharged on a Sh200,000 safeguard with a surety.

The case will come up for specify on November 14, 2023, ahead of trial on April 12 another year.