By Team
Former Cabinet Secretary Raphael Tuju on Monday recorded a statement with the police over alleged unlawful activities by a city lawyer in a case involving him and the East African Development Bank (EADB).
Tuju appeared at the DCI headquarters along Kiambu Road on Monday, February 16, to submit his statement to the investigating officer. He was accompanied by his lawyer, Duncan Okach.
Tuju had earlier, 10 days ago, written a letter to the DCI to report the alleged unlawful activities of the city lawyer in cases involving him and the East African Development Bank (EADB).
Tuju also reported to the DCI an alleged international warrant of arrest issued against him by a Ugandan court, which he termed as fake.
“I also took up with the DCI another fake international warrant of arrest issued against me by a Uganda Magistrate’s Court in the same case where the law firm is involved. It turned out to be nothing but an attempt to intimidate me,” he wrote in a press statement.
In Tuju’s statement to the police, he included court records and affidavits.
“This morning I came to submit my statement to the investigating officer. In my statement, I have included court records and affidavits which demonstrate that the city lawyer, together with other lawyers at the law firm, procured and manufactured many falsehoods from the former Kenya Country Manager of the Bank and deposited the same at the High Court of Kenya and the Supreme Court of Kenya.
The city lawyer and his law firm fraudulently claimed that these affidavits had been sworn before a Commissioner for Oaths, which was a lie,” he wrote.
Tuju claimed the city lawyer had been able to stall the process for over a year by invoking non-existent diplomatic immunity for EADB at the High Court.
“While the two cases are different, the pattern of lies is the same throughout this matter involving me and the family business under Dari Ltd,” he wrote in a press statement.
Tuju said the move was aimed at wrongfully depriving his family and himself of properties acquired through decades of hard work.
“I am advised by legal counsel that the city lawyer’s actions in filing false affidavits in court constitute the following offences: (a) fabricating evidence contrary to Section 113 of the Penal Code (Cap 63 of the Laws of Kenya); (b) conspiracy to defeat justice and interference with witnesses contrary to Section 117 of the Penal Code; and (c) provision of false information to a person employed in the public service contrary to Section 129 of the Penal Code,” he wrote.
Tuju challenged the city lawyer to sue him if he was lying about the allegations.
