BY KURIAN MUSA
The property of Kenya bus service limited may be auctioned and attached after its former employees obtained a court ruling to proceed with the intent to recover their unpaid wages.
The court has authorized former employees of KBS limited to proceed with the execution against the respondent, in satisfaction of the award given in favour of the claimant’s members.
Judge James Rika said in his ruling that the claimant process to execute the court orders were promptly resisted by Kenya bus service management limited.
Kenya bus had told the court that the buses that were set for auction by its former employees belonged to private individuals.
“The buses are owned individually but painted and use the name of the bus company,” Lawyers for KBS service told the court.
Judge Rika said: “Upon hearing the objectors application dated July 3, 2013, the court finds and orders that the objection is not merited, but is part of the prolonged effort by the respondent, not to meet the obligation arising under the award on record.”
The judge said that in law, legal separation of the KBS limited and the objector as argued by the objector, counts nothing.
“The court is satisfied the respondent and the objector are part of the same economic enterprise, with common business objectives and indeed represented by the same network of advocates,” Rika ruled.
He dismissed the objection to auction the property of KBS by the former employees of the bus firm.
The court awarded the employees Sh500 Million.
Their claim was failure to pay wages to over 732 employees of Kenya bus services limited as per ministers recommendations and unlawful locking out workers from performing their duties.
