The court has found former Laikipia East MP Anthony Mutahi guilty of interfering with a land suit between him and a settler in Nanyuki despite court orders and has been incarcerated for six-months in civil jail.
The court was told that the orders the former MP disobeyed were issued by Justice Mary Oundo sitting in Nyeri before being suspended until September 23.
The court had set 23rd of September as the day Anthony Mutahi was expected to appear in court.
In an application filed under urgency at the Environment and Land Court in Nyeri, Fiona Ansett sought, among other orders, to have the former legislator committed to civil jail for developing the 19.5 acres land in Nanyuki against an order issued in November 2017.
“Mutahi is hereby committed to a civil jail for a term of six months for contempt of court for deliberately disobeying orders of this court given on November 8, 2017,” ordered Justice Oundo.
Ansett moved to court after Mutahi started building a mansion on the said land despite a court order that restrained him or his family from interfering with it until the case on its ownership is determined in court.
In the 2017 court order by Justice Lucy Waithaka, the ex-MP was restrained together with his agents, assigned servants, employees and/or representatives from charging, selling, alienating and or disposing of the land registration number LR No 10422/13 pending hearing and determination of the case.
