The woman at the center of a controversial consignment of about 100,000 metric tonnes of oil valued at Sh17 billion has been warned against snubbing a meeting with MPs.
The Clerk of the National Assembly Samuel Njoroge told Ann Njeri Njoroge that failure to appear before the Departmental Committee on Energy would result in summons being issued.
“Be advised that failure to appear before the Committee this time may result in the summons for your appearance being issued in line with the National Assembly Standing Order 191(1)(a) and (b),” Njoroge said in a letter to the businesswoman.
The Committee has scheduled to meet Njeri on December 18, 2023, at 10 am in the Mini-Chamber Hall, Parliament Buildings.
Njeri had been scheduled to appear before the Vincent Musyoka Musau-led committee on November 22, 2023, but she failed to show up.
MPs are seeking to establish whether the consignment belongs to Njeri’s Ann’s Import and Export Enterprises Limited or the company registered as Galana Energies.
She is expected to apprise the committee of the ownership details of the consignment, country of origin and intended destination of the cargo amongst other concerns.
The businesswoman has found herself at the centre of controversy after government officials claimed the consignment she laid claim to belongs to Galana Energies Limited.
Energy Cabinet Secretary Davis Chirchir and the Kenya Ports Authority have maintained that Njeri is not the true owner of the oil consignment, alleging she used forged documents to assert ownership.
Njeri who claims to be the real owner of the Sh17 billion consignment went missing on November 9, 2023, moments after recording a statement at the DCI headquarters only to re-surface on November 14, 2023.
Opposition Leader Raila Odinga has insisted that Chirchir and Treasury CS Njuguna Ndung'u should resign over the Sh17 billion oil deal.
According to Raila, the two had committed criminal offences.
The Azimio leader alleged that the government-to-government deal was a corruption scandal hatched to withdraw money from the exchequer against the law.
