Officer in court for theft

A prisons warder was on Tuesday arraigned in a Kilgoris court for allegedly stealing a tractor pump injector worth 80,000 shillings.

Evans Onyango Adede jointly with others not before the court is accused of stealing the Massey Ferguson spare part belonging to Isaac Wanjala Simiyu within Kilgoris Government (GK) prison.

Adede is alleged to have stolen the item between the nights of 13^th and 14^th of May 2015.

Elsewhere, Kenya forest service officers have nabbed one and a half tones of Sandalwood timber in Busia, Teso South.

The timber is alleged to be in transit to Uganda and was packed in a pickup truck.

The driver has been arrested and is remanded at Adungosi police station.