Patience Cherotich is accused of setting fire to the house located at TRM Drive in Kasarani, Nairobi on August 10, 2023.
A 25-year-old Kenyan woman who allegedly set her ex-boyfriend’s house on fire, destroying property worth Sh120,000, has been charged with arson.
The accused and the complainant in the case were in a love affair but broke up.
Cherotich then begged Obeten, a Nigerian national, to allow her to visit him at his home and he agreed.
However, as soon as she arrived, she is said to have caused chaos in the house, while allegedly threatening to kill Obeten, prompting him to call for help from the apartment’s security guards, and the accused was forced out of the house.
But after spending hours in the cold, Obeten took pity on her and allowed her back into the house to spend the night and return to her home in the morning.
She slept on a couch in Obeten’s sitting room, and allegedly began banging on the complainant’s bedroom door at around 5am demanding to be let in.
A few minutes later, he learned that the house was on fire after he saw smoke. He rushed in to find bedding and other items on fire.
The fire had consumed the entire bed, bedding and several items before he extinguished it with the help of neighbours.
