This archive report was first published on 5 November 2019.
Kitui East MP Nimrod Mbai is facing arrest after a warrant was issued against him for failing to settle a Sh2.2 million debt to the law firm of Nyamu and Nyamu advocates.
The High Court in Kitui ordered the officer commanding Nairobi's Central Police Station to arrest Mr. Mbai and deliver him to the Kitui court.
The debt stems from the law firm's successful defense of Mr. Mbai in a petition challenging his election in 2017.
According to the court decree dated October 17, 2019, Mr. Mbai was ordered to pay Sh2,212,670.40, along with executing officers' expenses and fees, to bring the judgment-debtor before the court with all convenient speed.
Mr. Mbai, a former administration policeman, won the election on a Jubilee ticket with 14,256 votes against his opponent Millitonic Mwendwa Kitute's 10,899 votes.
He previously served as a bodyguard to former Minority Leader and Kitui West MP the late Francis Nyenze and Machakos Governor Alfred Mutua.
