BUSINESSMAN COUNTS LOSSES AS ATHI RIVER FACTORY IS TORCHED BY GOONS.

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Goons vandalizing the roof of Magvel Cartons factory building in Mlolongo.

BY NT CORRESPONDENT .

Packaging maker Megvel Cartons limited has been destroyed by unknown goons amidst a land ownership tussle.

The Mlolongo based carton making company was razed down over the weekend and goons made away with goods of un-known value including metal grills, iron sheets and metal doors.

The goons allegedly invaded the factory and destroyed part of the machinery before setting ablaze a section of the factory on Tuesday 14.

Unknown people were spotted at the company roof while destroying the roof as several people riding on boda boda were seen ferrying materials from the company.

The gate the company remained closed and manned by two armed security guards.

There was also a confrontation between police and two rival groups as smoke billowed from the building.

The owner is seeking for justice claiming that a rogue businessman and auctioneer led the goons to invade the property and caused the damage worth Sh3 billion.

He said agents of Diesel Cartel limited used goons to invade the property and torched the building as police officers watched.

This happened even after the tycoon had in his possession a court order that directed that the status quo of the property to be maintained.

Megvel Cartoons Limited and Joseph Odero had gotten an order that safeguarded their parcel of land from being auctioned.

The invasion is believed to have been orchestrated by Diesel Cartel Limited and Eliud Chai/A Chandoor Auctioneers despite an existing court orders that had ordered the status quo of the land to remain.

His lawyer while responding on the same said that court never gave a go ahead for the structures to be destroyed.

“The court never directed that the property to be destroyed, over 700 people are now unemployed, the police are working with the goons instead of helping the innocent Kenyans, we don’t know what the investors can do,” he said.

In the previous court cases, lawyer Miller Wanjala Bwire on behalf of the tycoon had raised several grounds in which he felt the tycoons’ rights were violated.

Bwire had told the court that an order restricting the invasion and attempted eviction of the respondent from the said parcel of land had been issued on June 27 by the same court.

The court heard that after the respondent learned on the court developments, the same respondents went to Machakos Magistrate court to file an application seeking the eviction of the applicants from the the said parcel of land and used dubious means where the court granted them an order.

“Basing on the fraud they filed at the Machakos magistrate’s court, the order of eviction was granted by the court directed that no destruction of property was to be witnessed. The respondent went ahead and invaded the said parcel with goons and bulldozers and demolished part of the buildings, burned down a go down and looted property worth Sh 3billion.” Bwire told the court.

The court heard that the destruction of property was done contrary to the order issued on June 27 and extended on July 27 and the fifth respondents and its directors were aware of the same.

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