{"id":3925,"date":"2024-12-02T23:38:47","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T20:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/?p=3925"},"modified":"2024-12-02T23:38:47","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T20:38:47","slug":"court-allows-70-years-old-man-to-sell-muranga-county-government-cars-as-compensation-kenyantraffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/court-allows-70-years-old-man-to-sell-muranga-county-government-cars-as-compensation-kenyantraffic\/","title":{"rendered":"How Court allowed 70-years-old man to sell Murang’a County government cars as compensation #tbt @KenyanTraffic"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Thika court gave 70 year old Ndwiga Njagi the right to sell the county governmet vehicles\u2013\u2013 a Toyota Fortuner of registration number 21CG004A and Ford Ecosport 21CG027A\u2014 both valued at Sh4.7 million. One of the vehicles was assigned to county secretary Patrick Mukuria.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The two vehicles, which have already been advertised for sale in local dailies, were auctioned after the county failed to pay Njagi Sh4.4 million in damages.<\/span><\/p>\n

The old man\u2019s business was raided by officials of the defunct Maragua Municipal in 2005 over alleged theft of murrum belonging to the council. He had used the murrum to level the entrance to his shop.<\/span><\/p>\n

The officers seized four sewing machines, pair of scissors, two bicycles and stock from his business. \u00a0Njagi\u2019s wife divorced him after the raid while his children dropped out of school.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI fruitlessly sought return of\u00a0\u00a0my tools of work. The council, however, remained adamant that they wouldn\u2019t return the items until I got tired and filed a case in court,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2010, a Thika court ordered the council to return the items but they defied the order.\u00a0Njagi\u2019s lawyer filed another case accusing the council of violating court orders and the court ordered return of the items.<\/span><\/p>\n

The council later appealed the ruling of the Thika court at a High Court in Nairobi and in 2015, the court overturned their plea and ordered it to return the items and pay Njagi Sh15,000.<\/span><\/p>\n

Transition to county governments further derailed his payment forcing him to seek fresh orders for payment of damages by the devolved government.<\/span><\/p>\n

Failure by Governor Mwangi Wa Iria\u2019s government to pay the claim triggered auction of the vehicles.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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This article first appeared on Media Max<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Thika court gave 70 year old Ndwiga Njagi the right to sell the county governmet vehicles\u2013\u2013 a Toyota Fortuner of registration number 21CG004A and Ford Ecosport 21CG027A\u2014 both valued at Sh4.7 million. One of the vehicles was assigned to county secretary Patrick Mukuria. The two vehicles, which have already been advertised for sale in…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3926,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1905],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pej6K6-11j","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-content\/uploads\/Governors-car-magaripoa.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}