JUDGE ORDERS AUCTIONEER TO EXPLAIN TO HOW COUPLE’S HOME WAS DESTROYED IN WESTLANDS.

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Auctioneer Zachariah Baraza who DCI wants to be detained for fourteen before Court. /PHOTO BY S.A.N.

BY SAM ALFAN.

A judge has ordered an auctioneer accused of violently evicting an Asian family from their home in Westlands to explain the circumstances under which they executed the exercise.

Environment and Land Court Justice Oscar Angote said Zachary Baraza of Siuma Auctioneers and an advocate identified as Nyakundi should file the affidavits in court by Friday, explaining the circumstances leading to the demolition of the house Niraj Shah.

The judge wants an explanation because an eviction notice was not issued by the magistrate’s court in relation to the property.

The said that the order was not supposed to be interpreted as an eviction notice and it appears your clients presented you with the wrong order.

The judge demanded for an explanation by way of an affidavit on which orders were executed.

The auctioneer alleged, who was involved in the Sunday dawn eviction and demolition of the house belonging to the elderly couple in Westlands had earlier opposed his detention pending ruling on whether he should be detained to allow the police complete investigations into the matter. 

Through his lawyer Bryan Khaemba, Baraza opposed the application to be detained for 14 days to allow the police complete investigations. The police sought to have him detained at Muthaiga Police station as they complete the probe.

Lawyer Khaemba faulted the conduct of the police to arrest suspect before conducting the investigations.

He urged the court to release the auctioneer on a cash bail of Sh20,000 pending investigations.

The officers from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations Headquarters paraded the auctioneer in court under a miscellaneous application seeking to detain him.

Sergeant Eric Onyango said the matter was reported by Niraj Shah at Spring Valley police station. 

He said the complainant maintains that Baraza led about 25 people into his family’s home at Westlands area along school lane.

They destroyed establishment on the parcel of land and stole a lot of his items. They also vandalized and carried away with doors, windows, roofing tiles and building stones.

The investigator said the building destroyed was worth Sh70 million and the family is yet to recover stolen items.

The officer further claims he has not arrested the accomplices.

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