Court issues warrant of arrest against Kisumu Governor for contempt.
By Dickson Odhiambo
July 25, 2019
Court issues warrant of arrest against Kisumu
Governor for contempt.
A HIGH Court in Kisumu has today issued a
warrant of arrest against Kisumu Governor Prof Peter Anyang Nyong’o and his
sister Risper Nyagoy after they have failed to pay shs 400,000 fine each.
Kisumu High Court
Judge Justice Thripisa Cherere said the duo are now facing imprisonment after
the Court has committed them to one month in jail for disobeying court orders
that were issued on May 23 this year.
This is after the
duo failed to pay the Sh400, 000 each they were fined by the court after the
court found them guilty for contempt on May 23, this year.
Justice Cherere who
has issued the warrant of arrest for the Governor and his sister has ordered
the Kisumu County Commander to arrest the two.
Cherere ordered
that the two be committed to one month in civil jail, adding that already the
court has issued the warrant of arrest that will be executed by the Kisumu County
Commander.
The Current Kisumu
County Police Commander is Mr. Benson Mawewo who took over from Mr. Job Boronjo
last year.
During the
today’s proceedings, Rodgers Mugumya the lawyer representing the complainants told
the court that the duo had now committed double contempt of court.
He claimed that
they were not happy with the conduct of the Governor and his sister after they
failed to comply with the terms of their sentences that were delivered in May
this year of 2019.
The Lawyer said other
orders that had also been issued earlier on by the court especially the order
that directed them to file the books of accounts were also yet to be complied
with.
The orders that
were issued in October 11 last year revoked the administrative certificate that
placed the duo as the sole administrators of the expansive estate.
The court had
also directed them to present documents that show they have opened an account
for their father's estate beginning July 9 2014.
On May 30 this year, the court convicted them for disobeying those orders and sentenced them
on May 30 with the judge ordering them to either pay Sh400,000 each or face one
month in prison.
The court has heard
that the duo were yet to comply with the orders with their nephews through
their lawyers urging the court to jail them.
Chacha Odera who
represented the Governor and his sister sought for more time to allow them
complete an appeal that has been filed at the appellate court challenging the
orders that revoked the administrative certificate.
Odera denied that
they had willfully disobeyed court orders saying that the Governor was a law
abiding citizen.
In the suit, two
nephews of Kisumu Governor, Geoffrey Omondi and Kenneth Odhiambo sued
the two for failing to include their families in the list of beneficiaries in
their late father’s multi-million estate.
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