The court on Tuesday issued a warrant of arrest against a senior official of a bank in Kenya following a petition filed by former Cabinet Secretary without portfolio Raphael Tuju.
The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions had earlier moved to court seeking a warrant of arrest against the bank boss on claims that he gave out of false information to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) regarding the property linked to the former CS.
“This afternoon, a warrant of arrest has been issued for a senior official of (bank name withheld). The criminal charges against(name withheld) and the bank stem from lies that were peddled by the bank to the DCI against myself, my children, and our company Dari Limited. Some of the lies were also entrenched in the bank affidavits to the Supreme Court of Kenya and other courts in Kenya and the UK,” a statement from Tuju read in part.
”Apart from entrenching the lies in the courts, the malicious reports were an attempt to criminalise an otherwise civil matter. It was also an attempt to intimidate me in the grand scheme to scandalise my name before stealing our properties.”
The former CS further revealed that the bank’s official lawyer (a senior council of the bar) went to court on Tuesday evening to try to stop the banker’s arrest.
”The bank’s country manager even recanted the affidavit that was sworn against us on behalf of the bank that was before the Supreme Court of Kenya (SCOK),” Tuju added.
“In the meantime, the SCOK had issued rulings in favor of the bank based on the lies and statements that were recanted by its official. Despite our pleas that the bank official be cross-examined, the Supreme Court mysteriously declined to take this important piece of evidence,” Tuju stated.
Meanwhile, he revealed that when the truth emerged in a lower court, the whole bench of five judges of the highest court recused themselves from the case.
”It should be of interest that the case by Nelson Havi seeking the removal of Supreme Court judges cites our Dari limited case as one of the grounds for the removal of the judges,” Tuju noted
”The recusal by the bench of 5 judges has no precedent in the Commonwealth law and is also currently the subject of litigation in other fora.”
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