Political Parties Dispute Resolution tribunal has extended the interim orders issued on April 28th stopping the Party of National Unity (PNU) from issuing certificates to the primaries nominees for various seats in Embu County until the hearing and determination of the complaint.
While delivering the ruling, tribunal chair Kyalo Mbobu said that in light of the letter dated April 24th addressed to the party by the complainants which to date has not been acted upon by the party, the claimants have conformed with the requirements to invoke the party’s internal dispute resolution mechanism.
Lawyer Apollo Muinde for the four PNU members Denis Mugendi, Jeremiah Mugambi Njagi, Patrick Mucira Wilson and Simon Njue Gitegua told the tribunal that the nomination exercise was a sham.
Mr Muinde urged the tribunal to order a repeat of the nomination exercise since it was tainted with violence, bribery and open campaigns during the nomination.
“ The presiding officers arrived the polling stations after 5pm and thousands and thousands of voters who were at the stations since morning were turned away without exercising their democratic rights of electing candidates if their choice,” Muinde told the tribunal.
He added that some of the names for various MCA aspirants in the area were missing from the ballot papers despite them having paid the necessary fees.
The party members are also seeking to have the primaries in Embu declared null and void having been tainted with massive fraud and gross irregularities.
Earlier an attempt by PNU to have the matter struck out for none compliance with PNU Constitution on dispute resolution was dismissed.
The tribunal agreed with Mr Muinde that the PNU did not follow the due process to resolve the issue.
The tribunal was presided over by Kyalo Mbobu (chairman), James Atemi and Aldeline Mbithi.
The PNU members among them Embu gubernatorial aspirant Dr Cyrus Njiru flocked the tribunal’s hearing session to show their support to the complainants.
while addressing the media outside Milimani law courts,
The tribunal also ordered the defendants to file their response on or before May 1st 2017.
The matter will be heard on Tuesday, April 2nd 2017 in the morning and the ruling delivered in the afternoon on the same day as it is a matter of urgency.
Three National Bank of Kenya employees have been charged with fraudulent false accounting for account numbers of two companies.
The three George Weke Jaba, Boniface Amunga Biko and Denis Oduor Chumbe are the Chief Credit officer, Executive Director corporate and institutional banking and head of medium business respectively.
They are charged with false entry in the loan book account belonging to Transafric Timber Limited
Regards, held at the NBK purporting to show that sh 69 million loan arrears owed by Transafric have been cleared and that the loan facility was a performing loan in the loan book of the said bank.
The three are alleged to have committed the offense on diverse dates between 17th and 31st December 2015 at the NBK along Harambee Avenue in Nairobi.
The servants were also charged with making false entries in the loan book account s belonging to Kaab Enterprises Limited held at the bank by purporting to show that sh 172 million loan arrears owed by KEL had been cleared and that the loan facilities were performing loans in the loan book of the said bank.
The trio was also charged with making similar entries in the account of Benver Estate Limited purporting to show that sh 106 million loan arrears had been cleared.
The again made the false entry in the accounts of General Mills East Africa Limited purporting to show that sh 87 million loan arrears had been cleared.
They also made false entries in the account of Virgin Packing limited purporting to show that sh 450 million owed by the company had been cleared.
Another false entry was also made in the account of Tahir Sheik Said general millers limited purporting to show that sh 119 million loan arrears had been cleared.
Two of the accused, Jaba and Biko appeared before before Chief Magistrate Francis Andayi and pleaded not guilty to the charges.
Third accused Denis Oduor Chumbe before CM Andayi where he denied the charges.
The third accused Chumbe was charged and pleaded not guilty yesterday.
They were released on an bond of sh 3million or a cash of 2million.
