Kenyan Tycoon Jimi Wanjigi Sued Over $160,000 Debt To Helicopter Charter Firm
Jimi Wanjigi, one of Kenya’s most prominent businessmen, has been sued by Lady Lori, a Helicopter charter service firm, over his refusal to pay a $160,000 debt in maintenance and hangar fees.
According to a report by Business Daily,
Lady Lori says Wanjigi and two of his companies, Tyl Limited and Kwacha
Group of Companies, contracted its services in 2014 to service his
personal helicopter and to provide Wanjigi with one of its helicopters
whenever his own aircraft was not airworthy. In the lawsuit, Lady Lori
alleges that Wanjigi and his companies subsequently returned a year
later and requested for hangar space services that were added to his
bill. However, Lady Lori alleges that Wanjigi and his companies recently
attempted to take possession of his aircraft in their custody without
settling his $160,000 debt which had accumulated since 2015.
Tyl Limited, one of Wanjigi’s companies, has filed an objection to
the suit and attested that it owes Lady Lori only a little over $70,000.
The case is awaiting hearing in court.
Wanjigi, who has made an incredible fortune over the years by
hobnobbing with powerful politicians and cornering lucrative government
tenders in the process, was one of the major financiers of opposition
party, National Super Alliance and its presidential candidate Raila
Odinga. In
2006 the United States government banned him from entering the U.S
because of his alleged ties to corruption in Kenya’s infamous Anglo
Leasing scandal.
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