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Firm wants to auction President's seat

A presidential seat made in 1992, approximated to have cost tens of millions of shillings might be sold after the company that designed it moved to court seeking orders to auction it for failure by the Government to pay for it.

Furcon Ltd, a company that had been awarded the tender to make the seat by the Office of the President, wants the High Court to issue orders to have the seat disposed off in antiques auction or sold to world museums as a way of recovering monies used to design it.

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