Kisumu Governor and his sister fined sh 400,000 each for contempt of Court.

 Lawyers Rodgers Mugumya{C} and his Colleague Erick Korir{R} with their client Kennedy Okuthe after the Kisumu High Court today fined Governor Nyong'o and his sister sh 400,000 each for contempt of Court.The two represent their Clients in an inheritance case pitting Governor Nyong'o and his two nephews.-Photo By Dickson Odhiambo

By Dickson Odhiambo.

May 30, 2019.

Kisumu Governor and his sister fined sh 400,000 each for contempt of Court.

The High Court has today fined Kisumu Governor Prof.Anyang Nyong'o and his sister Dr. Risper Nyagoy sh 400,000 each for contempt of Court.

The Court has found Governor Nyong’o and his sister guilty of contempt of court hence imposing the fine to the two.

High Court Lady Judge Tripsisa Cherere ruled today that the duo will be committed to civil jail of one month should they default to pay the fine as ordered.

The Court ruled that the two respondents should pay the fine within 30 days failure to which they will be serve a one month jail term.

The Court has further ruled that after the thirty days, failure by the two respondents to submit to the court the books of accounts for the Estate of Nyong’os father the late Hesbon Shimei Nyong’o as ordered following a case on inheritance of property where the Governor and his sister were sued by their two relatives, the two will pay sh 50,000 every month until they will produce those books of accounts for the Estate as ordered by the Court earlier.

Prof Nyong’o and his sister Dr Risper Nyagoy were last week found guilty of disobeying court orders that had directed them to include their nephews on the inheritance list for the property left behind by their late father Hesbone Shimei Nyong’o.

Kisumu High Court Judge Justice Tripisas Cherere accepted an application by one of the applicants Kenneth Okuthe who is a nephew to Kisumu Governor, asking the court to commit Prof Nyong’o and his sister Dr Nyagoy to civil jail for a period not exceeding six months for their disobedience. 

Today May 30, 2019, the court has found the duo guilty and has ordered them to pay shs 400,000 each as a fine within 30 days failure to which they are committed to civil jail for a period of one month.

The High Court in Kisumu last year in October had ordered Kisumu Governor Anyang’ Nyong’o and his sister Risper Nyagoy to include all children belonging to their two sisters as beneficiaries of their late father’s multimillion-shilling property.

High Court Judge Justice Tripsisa Cherere in her ruling then revoked the administrative letters and certificate of confirmation of grant that placed Prof Nyong’o and Dr Nyagoy as the sole controllers of the estate and appointed one of the nephews, Kenneth Odhiambo Okuthe as co-administrators of the late Hesbon Shimei Nyong’o's estate.

The Court further directed Prof Nyong’o and his other siblings who have been benefitting from the property to file an account of Shimei's estate and certificate of confirmation that had been issued to them, about four years ago that gave them the power to control the estate and they were directed to file within 45 days. 

In the matter, Kisumu Governor Prof Nyong’o’s nephews Kennedy Okuthe and Geoffrey Omondi had sued him and his sister Dr Nyagoy for leaving some relatives out of the list of beneficiaries of their late father’s estate.

Mr.Erick Korir and Rodgers Mugumya are representing the applicants Kennedy Okuthe and Geoffrey Omondi in the matter while Jefferson Museve represents Kisumu Governor Prof Nyong’o and his sister Dr. Risper Nyagoy in this matter.

The matter will continue in July this year.

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