By Caroline Rwenji
Kenya: The court has ordered Lands Cabinet Secretary Charity Ngilu to be served with court documents in a contempt case against her.
High Court judge Justice Mumbi Ngugi asked Flash Audio Services on Wednesday to serve Ngilu with the documents before the next hearing on May 22.
On Monday, the court allowed the contempt case against Ngilu to proceed over remarks she allegedly made on an ongoing land case.
In a petition filed before the same judge, the CS was accused of contempt after she allegedly called for a press conference to discuss an ongoing land tussle between two companies.
In the press conference, the court documents indicate, Ngilu made remarks about a land tussle between an Asian family and a company over a multi-million plot in Parkland’s Nairobi.
File disappeared
The news conference was held on March 21 at her Ardhi House office where she was accompanied by the Asian family.
The family is said to have been sent to Ngilu by Industrialisation Cabinet Secretary Adan Mohamed.
Flash Audio Services, whose director is put down as James Gichuki Wambugu, has been locked in land tussles with Nazir and Zahir Manji who are the directors of Mbesa Limited, with each party claiming ownership of the land.
According Ngilu, Mbesa’s file had disappeared from the registry and a new one allegedly created commencing a process of allocating the said land to Flash Audio Services limited.
