A Milimani court has issued a warrant of arrest against Mombasa County Finance CEC Evans Oanda for allegedly failing to pay Sh67 million owed to a car dealer.
Justice Jairus Ngaah directed OCS Mombasa Central police station to effect the arrest.
The OCS is to bring him to court to explain why he should not be committed to jail for a period of six months for being in contempt of court.
A warrant had been issued by the courts in December 2018 against the then Mombasa Finance CEC Maryam Mbaruk over similar issues.
But Justice Ngaah said since she is no longer in office, it cannot be said that she is in contempt of court because she does not have a date to make the payments.
"Her arrest at this time would be of no consequence," the Judge said.
Based on this, Ngaah said it was upon the Automotive Automobile Distributors (K) Limited to make the appropriate application for the issue of a fresh warrant of arrest, which they did.
Following the application, the court has not issued a fresh warrant against the current finance CEC.
In the case, Associated Automobiles Distributors Limited sued the defunct Municipal Council of Mombasa for allegedly failing to pay for five vehicles sold to them almost two decades ago.
The company said it sold and delivered the vehicles as per the council’s request and order in the 1998-99 financial year. It also supplied spare parts and rendered services.
The company at the time was demanding a balance of Sh13,541,815. The money has since gone up due to interest.
The council was replaced by the Mombasa county government when devolution took effect in March 2013.
