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Ngilu, County to pay businessman Sh25m for burnt lorry

Former Kitui Governor Charity Ngilu at a Mombasa High Court in Mombasa County on Tuesday 7th May 2024, during a hearing of a land tussle between her and some residents at Airport ward in Changamwe. [Kelvin Karani, Standard]

Kitui County Government and former governor Charity Ngilu have been ordered by a commercial court to pay a businessman Sh25 million in compensation for burning his lorry which was ferrying 400 bags of charcoal in 2018.

The court made the directive after finding that there is compelling evidence showing that Ngilu ordered employees of her government to burn the lorry ferrying charcoal claiming trader David Kariuki Waweru had no valid license to carry out the consignment.

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