Karume trustees want siblings jailed for contempt

The fight for late Cabinet minister Njenga Karume’s wealth took a new twist after the estate trustees asked that his two sons and a daughter be jailed for disobeying a court order.

The trustees have accused Mr Albert Karume, Ms Lucy Karume and Mr Samuel Karume of deliberately publishing a misleading court order to trick the public into believing that there is a caveat placed on Pizza Garden in Westlands, Nairobi.

“It is clear from the wording of their caveat that their intention is to mislead the public and any parties who have dealings with the Njenga Karume Trust. The children and their advocates on record should be committed to jail or their property be attached for contempt of court,” the trustees said.

According to Mr George Ngugi Waireri, one of the trustees, the three siblings arranged to have an ambiguous court order drawn in a scheme aimed at altering the original directions issued in court.

Judges Alfred Mabeya and Mbogoli Msagha on September 17 issued an order stopping the trustees from selling the Pizza Garden, but allowed the trustees to refurbish it.

However, Mr Waireri claimed that a vague court order published by the children may confuse people and institutions that have business dealings with the trust.

The court dispute started when the two brothers and their sister sought to remove the three as trustees of their late father’s estate.