BY NT CORRESPONDENT.
A court hearing involving members of troubled Ekeza Sacco turned physical as angry members descended on one of the lawyers accusing him of taking advantage of their plight.
The members manhandled one of the lawyers representing controversial televangelist David Kariuki Ngare, popularly known as Gakuyo, soon after the mention of their case.
The members accused the advocate of presenting contradicting position of the sacco before court, which appear to favour Gakuyo.
Furious for having lost money and the advocate seems to ridicule them, the agitated members pounced on lawyer Samuel Mburu tearing his shirt as they manhandled him.
It took the intervention of a security guard who rushed to the rescue of the lawyer from the ‘jaws’ of the angry mob to end the roughing up of the lawyer.
There was confusion earlier in court as two lawyers fought over the representation of the sacco.
Both Mburu and Okachi claim that they have instructions to represent the Sacco.
Whereas Mburu says he has no problem with court orders issued stopping the take over by the new management, lawyer Okachi wants the orders vacated.
The judge directed the application seeking to have the orders vacated be filed formally and have the matter mentioned next week.
The court had temporarily stopped the Commissioner of Co-operative Development from installing the new management Committee at Ekeza Sacco.
The commission was also barred from removing from office the management committee of Ezeka Sacco.
In the matter,11 sacco members siding with Gakuyo through advocate Danstan Omari filed the petition to stop the commissioner from interfering with the management of Sacco.
