This archive report was first published on 8 October 2019.
Published on October 8, 2019, a High Court in Kenya has summoned three members of an ad-hoc Committee that represented miraa farmers in the management of funds in 2013 over failure to pay legal fees to a law firm that handled the case.
Former Igembe North MP Joseph M'eruaiki, Kimathi Munjuri alias Sakijo, and Dave Ntawa alias Blackie have been summoned to appear in court over failure to remit Sh536,904 in legal fees to lawyer Henry Kurauka.
The three were members of an ad-hoc committee that represented various committees and associations tasked with the custody and management of Legal fees raised by miraa farmers, traders, stakeholders, and well-wishers in November 2013.
Lawyer Henry Kurauka has accused the three of publishing defamatory articles against him in the media, stating that they published 'scandalous, false, malicious, slanderous, and defamatory statements' to justify their conspiracy and attempt to misappropriate the Miraa Legal Fees Fund.
Kurauka further stated that M'eruaiki and Munjuri maliciously and wrongfully published misleading and defamatory words against him in print and broadcast media on August 29, 2019.
The court has ordered that Kurauka be paid Sh536,904 in respect of the petition for miraa ban by Nacada, as per the orders of Justice James Makau dated April 1, 2019.
The case will be heard on October 23, 2019.
