Bernard Otieno in the dock at the Makadara law courts
A Nairobi tenant who allegedly forged bank deposit slips to prove payment of Sh14,500 for a period of seven months is charged with cheating his landlord of Sh101,500 by means of fraudulent tricks in contravention of section 315 of the Penal Code.
Bernard Otieno is accused of cheating Godfrey Wainaina on diverse dates between September 2024 and August 2025, when he lived in his house, and allegedly forged bank deposit slips to falsely indicate he was paying rent during the period.
Otieno is also facing charges of uttering a forged document in contravention of section 353 as read with section 349 of the Penal Code, where he is accused of knowingly and fraudulently uttering fake NCBA receipts to Wainaina’s caretaker.
He denied the charges before Senior Principal Magistrate Paul Rotich of the Makadara law courts and was released on a cash bail of Sh60,000 to await trial, which begins on November 3.
The fraud was discovered last month when Wainaina received bank deposit slips from the caretaker, which Otieno had given, but noticed anomalies in the receipts.
What raised Wainaina’s suspicion was that the receipts showed Otieno as the depositor and indicated that he had also processed the receipt, which should have been done by a bank staffer serving him.
Wainaina, who owns a residential block at Kimathi Estate, became suspicious and went to check all receipts that Otieno had submitted previously and found five others with the same anomalies.
He later reported the matter at the Jogoo Road police station, where investigations began, and it was confirmed through the NCBA that the receipts submitted by Otieno were fake.
The bank confirmed that all the deposit slips that Otieno had handed to Wainaina’s caretaker, purportedly proving payment of rent for seven months, were forged. Otieno was tracked, arrested and charged.
