The three female suspects were charged before a magistrates court for committing the crime on two separate dates of April last year.
The elderly lady appeared in court to represent herself seeming weak and unable to communicate fluently. She was seated through the courts session unable to stand for long at the dock.
Wairimu Kinyanjui 80,Hannah Gathoni ,29 and Naomi Wambui,27 jointly denied three different counts before a Makadara court.
They were arrested over the weekend but were each released with a sh 10,000 police bond for appearance in court.
Joseph Waithaka deposited half a million shillings to the suspects last year with the agreement that they would transfer plot number 222 from James Maina for confirmed ownership in the title deed. However, the court further established that James Maina was missing and still at large for further investigations.
Wairimu, a businesswoman commonly respected as the Chairlady of Ngara's women group used her office at Aqua house in Ngara to facilitate the transactions. She was jointly charged for conspiring to defraud by receiving sh 470,000 from Waithaka on 15th April 2011
On the second count she was jointly charged for obtaining money in the pretense that she would transfer the said plot number and receiving sh 21,000 on April 1st 2011.
In addition she was charged for intending to defraud by receiving sh 20,000 in the pretense of further transferring the plot on 15th April last year.
P.M Rose Otieno granted each a cash bail of sh30,000 with an alternative bond of sh 100,000.
The case will be heard late November this year.
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