Court allows Linturi to evict Marianne Kitany from his Runda home
Aldai Member of Parliament Marianne Kitany.
The High Court has allowed Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Mithika Linturi to evict Aldai Member of Parliament Marianne Kitany from his palatial house in Runda, Nairobi.
Justice Maureen Odero dismissed an appeal by Ms Kitany to be allowed to continue living in the Runda house.
The legislator was seeking orders to quash a decision by Chief Magistrate Heston Nyagah to allow Mr Linturi to kick her out of the house since there was no marriage between them.
Justice Odero said she had no jurisdiction to entertain the appeal following a dismissal of the same application by the Court of Appeal.
In the appeal, the Aldai lawmaker wanted Justice Odero to suspend the execution of the judgment permitting Mr Linturi to kick her out of their Runda home.
She was also seeking an order to stay the execution of the judgment of Magistrate Nyagah which said there was a valid marriage between the two.
“This honourable court be pleased to issue orders of injunction and preservation restraining Linturi his agents or any other person acting on his behalf or under his instructions from evicting, interfering, ejecting or in any way interfering with quiet possession, stay and occupation of the house known as Mae Ridge County Villas No16 erected on LR No.7785/1324(I.R123703) pending the hearing and determination of the appeal,” Ms Kitany " urged the court.
The CS objected to the appeal saying it was an abuse of the court process since there had been a similar application dated September 19, 2022, which sought similar reliefs pending in the Court of Appeal.
The Court of Appeal dismissed a similar application by the applicant on February 10, 2022.
Mr Linturi argued that the Court of Appeal had dismissed on three separate occasions.
"Marianne wants to continue living in the palatial home for the sixth year running yet the court had established that there was no marriage between me and the appellant, " Mr Linturi told the court.
