Missing woman in Ksh17B oil import deal appears in court
Anne Njeri Njoroge, the businesswoman at the center of the controversial Ksh17 billion diesel deal, now says that she will not withdraw her case against two state corporations and an oil marketing company.
The businesswoman reappeared in a Mombasa high court Tuesday, four days after going missing, where she narrated her ordeal in the hands of her alleged abductors.
According to her lawyers Cliff Ombeta and David Chumo who had filed a habeas corpus application at the Mombasa High Court Monday night but was overtaken by events, noted that her client was threatened with death if she did not withdraw the case against Kenya Ports Authority, Kenya Pipeline Company, and Galana Energies Limited.
“She was supposed to not only withdraw the case but also do so before leaving the country. Now we are saying here clearly, that we are not withdrawing the case,” Ombeta told journalists outside the Mombasa Law Courts.
“We shall not be threatened. The case must go on. Impunity must die.”
He revealed that the officers who had questioned her tried to cut a deal with her, seeking a commission from the proceeds of the consignment.
The lawyer linked the saga to the oil cartel in the country, arguing that the fuel Njeri brought would have been cheaper than the one in the Government-to-Government oil deal.
