Weeks after hitting headlines following a break up with his wife and then hosting a lavish birthday party, Governor Alfred Mutua is in big trouble.
This is after the court issued warrant of arrest against him for disobeying a court order.
The Environment and Lands Court issued the warrant of arrest after the Machakos Governor failed to pay a businessman a total of Kshs5,590,443.15 as the court had directed.
Mutua was supposed to pay David Gitau Thairu the said amount of money as compensation for the damage he had received after the County Government of Machakos resolved to dump waste on his piece of land.
Thairu moved to court accusing the governor together with the county government of dumping waste on his land.
The court directed that waste disposal on the piece of land should be halted but the county government still went ahead to dispose waste in the land making Thairu to once again seek the court’s intervention.
The court ordered that Thairu be compensated for the damage he had received, an order that Mutua ignored.
The warrant to arrest Mutua was issued by Machakos Principle Magistrate C.N Ondieki.
The magistrate ordered the OCS of Machakos Police Station to present Mutua in court as soon as possible.
“These are to command you to arrest the said Governor, County Government of Machakos and unless they shall pay to you the sum of Kshs 5,590,443.15/= as noted in the margin, together with executing officer’s expenses and fees if any to bring the Governor, County Government of Machakos before the Court with all convenient speed,” Judge Ondieki directed.
Aside from Governor Mutua and Machakos county government, the Attorney General is also listed as a respondent in the case.
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