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| Hon. Moses Wetangula |
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| Mr. Danson Mungatana |
Kenya News -- Bungoma senator, Moses Wetangula has filed a suit against
Danson Mungatana over a KSHs 12 million (about $140,000) “friendly” loan. The
senator, who was then the foreign Minister, has stated that he gave the loan sometimes
in 2010 over “a strength of an oral agreement they had with the former MP” who
was an assistant minister at the time.
Mr Mungatana, now the chairman of Kenya Ports
Authority (KPA), has denied ever receiving money from Mr Wetangula.
According to court documents submitted the senator and seen
by the Daily Nation, the “friendly loan” was given after Mungatana approached
him with a pressing issue. “On receipt of the aforesaid friendly loan, the
defendant gave the plaintiff his personal cheques which were to be banked on
the due dates”, the cheques were however not paid by the bank due insufficient
funds.
Mr Mungatana then promised to use other means to pay the
cash but has never responded to requests from the senator.
Mr Mungatana says he does not owe any money to the Cord Senator,
and the senate minority leader. If there is any debt “I must have paid back in
full”. According to him, the suit is
linked to an unlawful and unforeseeable contract they had with Mr Wetangula.
“It is tainted with
misrepresentation and mistake of fact, non-disclosure of material facts and is,
therefore, incompetent and bad in law,” added Mr Mungatana.
The former MP said that the cheques produced represented the
senator’s share of principal sum and profits expected from a deal they had
carried out together – interesting.
He further accuses the senator of becoming impatient before
the deal reaches maturity.
The case will be heard on December 8 and it will be
interesting to see how things unfold.
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