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Landlord to pay tenant sh62 million compensation over illegal eviction

A wooden gavel. [Courtesy]

An appellant court in Mombasa has declined to stop a Sh62 million compensation to a tenant forcefully evicted by his landlord despite an existing lease agreement.

The High Court ordered a developer, Frann Investment Limited, to pay James Wambui damages after evicting him from the premises where he was running a restaurant.

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