WIN FOR WETANGULA AFTER COURT DISMISSED SH200,000 CLAIM FOR TRAINING HIS DOG.

National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetangula.

BY SAM ALFAN.

National Assembly Moses Wetang’ula has won a reprieve after a Nairobi court dismissed a case by a man who sought more than Sh200,000 as payment for allegedly training his dog.

The Small claims court dismissed the case by Isokat Bethwel after he failed to prosecute the case.

Isokat had claimed that he sold and trained the German shepherd for Wetang’ula but he refused to pay the agreed amount.

The case was dismissed after the complainant failed to show up in court to prosecute the matter.

Isokat was ordered to pay Wetangula Sh15,000 for the costs incurred in defending the matter.
In reply to the complaint, Wetang’ula said he fully paid Isokat.

According to Wetang’ula, he paid Sh100,000 to Isokat as per the agreement.

Wetang’ula said Isokat filed the claim to camouflage himself as a victim in a fictitious claim with malicious objective, hoping to extort money from him.

“This frivolous claim is intended to malign, vex and annoy me as well as embarrass and attract negative publicity against me,” adds Wetang’ula.

He said the complainant wrote him a message on WhatsApp on 26th June 2024 demanding Sh214,000.

He said he did respond to the message and he categorically informed him that he did not owe him any monies.

He argues that at no point did he contract Isokat to train the dogs for an alleged Sh50,000 or at all.

“I am categorical that Bethwel did not offer any training to the dogs post-delivery and there was no contract between him and Bethwel for post-delivery training,” said Wetangula through Stephen Apopo Okumu.

The lawyer said he was present when the oral contract between Wetangula and Bethwel was entered, and he can confirm that there was no contract for training the dogs post-delivery.

“The purported training post-delivery and owed training costs as alleged by the Bethwel are imaginary and or pure falsehoods. Bethwel in an attempt to extort money from Wetang’ula has made and publicized frivolous and fictitious demands in an attempt to humiliate and pressurize him to pay nonexistent dues,” says Apopo.

Wetang’ula said he is a stranger to the invoice dated 11th June, 2021 and delivery note dated the same day as presented to this court by the Claimant. The same were never supplied to him before, during or on conclusion of the said dog’s transaction.

According to Wetang’ula, he has never been furnished by Bethwel with the said documents before, during or after the sale.

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