Beer being packed and processed.
BY SAM ALFAN.
Alcohol distributor Bia Tosha wants directors of EABL jailed for refusing them to distribute their beer.
Bia Tosha now through their lawyer Okoth & Kiplagat advocate demands from the courts that East African Breweries Limited (EABL) directors Andrew Cowan ,and Ms Jane Karuku together with Kenya Breweries Limited(KBL) sales Director Andrew Kilonzo be jailed.
They say that EABL terminated their distribution contracts and KBL has since stopped supplying them with beer from the latter.
Bia Tosha is also demanding a Sh30 million fine from EABL, KBL among other respondents.
“KBL contemptuous actions have brought the operations of the
petitioners to a halt and therefore greatly prejudicing the
petitioner,” Bia Tosha argues.
On June 16, EABL lost bid to appoint another beer distributor on the same routes as its single-largest distributor.
Bia Tosha claims that it has propriety rights to the 22 routes which were granted by EABL in 2006.
It has even gone ahead and paid sh38 million to the beer maker as goodwill intended to secure exclusive operation in
those territories.
The 22 routes covered by Bia Tosha include Namanga, Bissil, Kajiado,
Kitengela, Athi River, Industrial Area, South B, Nairobi West, Kenyatta, Lang’ata, Rongai, Kiserian, Magadi, Upper Hill, Ngong Road, Hurlingham, Kawangware, Satellite, Dagoretti, UDV A, UDV B and UDV C
