President Ruto has reiterated his chilling three-step prescription for the court cases between creditors and the Mumias Sugar Company; you either withdraw the court cases or face jail, deportation or a journey to heaven.
Speaking on Wednesday, President Ruto said this is not a threat but how it will be. And as the President repeated his message one of the firms challenging the leasing of Mumias sugar to Uganda-based miller Sarrai Group has filed a notice at the Court of Appeal seeking to withdraw the case.
In what appears to be a retreat occasioned by President Ruto’s controversial triple threat of jail, deportation or heaven; one of the parties to the Mumias Sugar saga has picked the only other option available which is to withdraw from the legal cases against Mumias.
Wednesday evening, Dubai-based Vartox Limited, through its legal firm Anjarwalla and Khanna LLP located in Westlands, Nairobi, filed a notice of withdrawal of a case at the Court of Appeal that was against the leasing of the firm to the Uganda-based Sarrai Group.
In the notice of withdrawal, it notes, “take notice that Vartox Resources In, the 3rd respondent in these proceedings, hereby withdraws its application dated 25th December 2022.”
The company’s owner, tycoon Sarbjit Singh Rai, is entangled in a legal tussle with his billionaire brother Jaswant Rai, who owns West Kenya Sugar, over the 20-year lease granted to Sarrai and the manner in which Mumias sugar was handed to him.
