This archive report was first published on 12 November 2019.
On November 12, 2019, Tata Chemicals Magadi Ltd, a multinational miner, found itself back in court in a bid to quash an earlier arbitration ruling in a Sh17 billion land rate dispute with Kajiado County.
The company had previously ignored a High Court order directing it and the devolved unit to participate in an arbitration to resolve the stalemate.
Former Kajiado High Court Judge Reuben Nyakundi had earlier rejected the company's assertion that the law the County was using to demand land rates was not properly enacted.
The company now seeks to have the Court of Appeal declare the county's Finance Act invalid, rendering the county government's claim on land rates illegal.
It also wants Justice Nyakundi's order of May 3 directing the Ministry of Mining to midwife an arbitration between the parties set aside.
Interestingly, this is the day the company moved to the Court of Appeal in Nairobi to challenge the High Court order.
