NAIROBI, Kenya, Mar 13 — A magistrate court at Nairobi’s Milimani Law Courts has granted an application by an auctioneer to evict the Aldai Member of Parliament Maryanne Keitany from the Runda House she shared with Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Mithika Linturi.
Keitany had initially sought interim orders to prevent the auctioneer from evicting her, but Chief Magistrate Wendy Micheni vacated the orders in a ruling delivered on March 13.
Micheni also ordered the police to provide security to the auctioneers while carrying out the eviction.
“The Officer Commanding Station (OCS) Runda Police Station in Nairobi, and, in their absence or default, any other police officer above the rank of Assistant Inspector of Police, is hereby ordered to provide security and police assistance in evicting the Applicant Maryanne Jebet Kitany from House Number 16 Mae Ridge County Villas L. R. NO. 7785/1324 (1. R. NO. 123703), situated in Runda Estate within the Nairobi City County of the Republic of Kenya,” Micheni said.
The court also issued a warning that any disobedience of the court order would result in penal consequences to any person(s) who disobeyed it.
“TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that if this Court Order is not obeyed, an application may be made citing the person(s) so disobeying for contempt of court seeking their detention and other punishment for such person(s) together with any other remedy available in law,” read the order.
The eviction comes after a ruling by the High Court on January 20 that dismissed Keitany’s claim on the house. The ruling was the culmination of a series of lawsuits between the two parties in a divorce case that ended with a finding that there was “no marriage”, civil or otherwise, when the two allegedly lived together.
