On Tuesday, the court granted a petition by former Cabinet Secretary without portfolio Raphael Tuju and issued an arrest warrant for a senior Kenyan bank official.
Previously, the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions sought a court warrant to arrest the bank boss for allegedly providing false information to investigative bodies such as the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) regarding property associated with the former CS.
In a statement released shortly after the developments and seen by us, Tuju, who has been involved in court proceedings regarding the issue, verified the claims and disclosed that the false information also involved his children.
He added that the official had submitted the fabricated accusations not just in Kenyan courts, but also in courts located in the United Kingdom.
Additionally, the Cabinet member from the Uhuru era highlighted that the manipulation of evidence was part of a broader strategy to scare him and tarnish his reputation as a pretext for property theft.
“This afternoon, a warrant of arrest has been issued for a senior official of (bank name withheld). The criminal charges against(name withheld) and the bank stem from lies that were peddled by the bank to the DCI against myself, my children, and our company Dari Limited. Some of the lies were also entrenched in the bank affidavits to the Supreme Court of Kenya and other courts in Kenya and the UK,” a statement from Tuju read in part.
”Apart from entrenching the lies in the courts, the malicious reports were an attempt to criminalise an otherwise civil matter. It was also an attempt to intimidate me in the grand scheme to scandalise my name before stealing our properties.”
The previous CS disclosed further that the bank’s official attorney (a senior council of the bar) attempted to prevent the banker’s arrest by going to court on Tuesday evening.
As per Tuju, on July 11, 12, and 31 of the year 2024, during the submission of an affidavit in open court, a bank manager from the mentioned bank acknowledged under oath that their colleague had lied in both Kenyan and UK courts.
Tuju added, ”The country manager of the bank even withdrew the affidavit sworn against us on the bank’s behalf that was pending before the Supreme Court of Kenya (SCOK).”
Tuju, however, criticized the Supreme Court for rejecting requests for cross-examination of the accused official after ruling in favor of the bank.
He disclosed that when the truth came to light in a lower court, all five judges of the highest court recused themselves from the case.
”It is noteworthy that Nelson Havi’s case aiming to remove Supreme Court judges references our Dari limited case as one of the reasons for their removal,” Tuju adedd
“The recusal of the five-judge panel has no precedent in Commonwealth law and is currently being litigated in other venues.”
