The courtroom problems an arrest warrant for Sunspot Petroleum’s director

by CAROLYNE KUBWA
Sunday, February 5, 2023

Sunspot Petroleum Confined leader Abdighani Abdirahman Abdi
copy: CAROLYNE KUBWA

A service provider director accused of stealing Sh10 million by using employment is wished by courtroom after skipping bail.

Milimani Chief Justice of the Peace Susan Shitubi suspended Abdighani Abdirahman Abdi’s money bail after he failed to look in courtroom 3 times to take care of his case.

extreme month, Chief {Justice|{[Efluity]?}|Impartiality|Fairness|Right|Reasonableness|Propriety|Uprightness|Desert|Integrity} Wendy Micheni, who has since been transferred, issued the arrest warrant in opposition to the accused.

Abdirahman allegedly absconded from courtroom after being charged final 12 months with theft and forgery.

When the case got here up on February 3 for point out, Abdirahman was nevertheless lacking from courtroom. His lawyer was additionally absent from courtroom.

This prompted the decide to droop his parole and lengthen the warrant for his arrest.

His Sh300,000 money bail was forfeited to the state.

The case is said on February 17.

In courtroom, the accused is accused that on November 3, 2021 and stately 31, 2022, at Diamond Faith Financial institution Koinange department in Nairobi, as a director of Sunspot Petroleum Confined, he stole Sh10,248,592, the property of the petroleum service provider which he took into his possession by digital of his directorship .

The prosecution mentioned Abdirahman on October 12, 2020, at an undisclosed location within the Republic of Kenya, with others who usually are not earlier than the courtroom with intent to defraud, a decision of the board assembly of Sunspot Petroleum Confined held on October 12, 2020.

He alleged that it was a real board assembly decision of the administrators of Sunspot Petroleum Confined accredited and signed by Hafsa Bulhan Hussein, a director of the service provider.

Inside the third rely, Mr Abdirahman was charged with, at an undisclosed location within the Republic of Kenya, in conjunction with others who usually are not earlier than the courtroom, and with intent to defraud, falsify a registrar of organizations. Particulars of board change submitted and signed by Hafsa Bulhan Hussein, a director of Sunspot Petroleum Confined.

He is additionally alleged to have cast a director/shareholder resignation in a service provider letter dated February 8, 2021, purporting to be a real and legitimate director/shareholder resignation letter written and signed by Hafsa Bulhan Hussein.

The courtroom heard, he additionally cast a statutory affidavit purporting to be a authentic and legitimate statutory declaration of an affidavit of change of electronic mail deal with sworn and signed by Hafsa Bulhan Hussein earlier than Samuel O. Makori’s Pleader and Commissioners of Oaths.

The director faces one other cost that on 8 February 2021, at an unknown place within the Republic of Kenya, in conjunction with others who usually are not earlier than the courtroom, with intent to defraud, falsified a statutory declaration of the subject, purporting to be a real and legitimate statutory declaration of forfeiture of 500 service provider shares, sworn and signed by Hafsa earlier than Samuel Makori, a lawyer and Commissioner of Oaths.

Advice for the appellant Solomon Olonde Kepher had opposed the bail utility saying the accused threatened the appellant saying he would kill him.

“If released, the accused may flee to Somalia and is of no known whereabouts,” Olonde added.

The courtroom was additionally knowledgeable that the accused was probably to disturb witnesses because the complainants are his kin who’re brothers and sisters-in-law.

The accused appealed to the courtroom to be launched on bail, saying he was not a flight danger.