By Willis Oketch
MOMBASA, KENYA: Police in Mombasa have arrested a British engineer following a warrant of arrest issued against the foreigner by a Tononoka children’s court.
The warrant of arrest was issued last week, before the officers attached to Moi International Airport arrested him on Tuesday.
Graham Sinclair was arrested while checking in at local flights desk to board a plane to Nairobi.
And now a Mombasa court has taken his passport and issued orders to ensure he does not leave the country. The Tononoka Children’s Court Senior Resident Magistrate Beatrice Koech issued the warrant, but police, Immigration department, and other Government agents were unable to enforce it because they were, allegedly, unable to find him.
It was issued after a successful application by his estranged wife Senorine Akinyi through her lawyer Lucy Momanyi over alleged failure to pay Sh1 million fees for his two children at Braeburn International School in Mombasa.
Senorine had expressed fear that her estranged husband could flee Kenya without paying the money after court had set him free.
While pleading for the warrant of arrest, Momanyi told the court that her client was worried Sinclair could leave the country with his newly found lover with whom they already have a son.
While at the court Sinclair denied he was planning to leave Kenya, arguing that he is married to a Kenyan woman with whom they have a son and that he was already taking care of his two children with Senorine.
The magistrate set him free after he assured the court that he would not leave the country. He was ordered to come to court on April 22 for inter partes hearing. He was also ordered to deposit his passport as security.
