The court on Tuesday issued a warrant of arrest against a senior official of a bank in Kenya following a petition filed by former Cabinet Secretary without portfolio Raphael Tuju. 

The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions had earlier moved to court seeking a warrant of arrest against the bank boss on allegations of giving false information to investigative agencies including the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) touching on property linked to the former CS.

In a statement issued shortly after the developments and seen by Kenyans.co.ke, Tuju, who has been in court over the matter, confirmed the claims revealing that the false information also implicated his children.

He further stated that the official had not only presented the falsified allegations in Kenyan courts but also courts in the United Kingdom.  

Further, the Uhuru-era Cabinet member pinpointed that the falsification of the evidence was also an attempt to intimidate him in a grand scheme of scandalising his name before stealing our properties

''This afternoon, a warrant of arrest has been issued for a senior official of (bank name withheld). The criminal charges against(name withheld) and the bank stem from lies that were peddled by the bank to the DCI against myself, my children, and our company Dari Limited. Some of the lies were also entrenched in the bank affidavits to the Supreme Court of Kenya and other courts in Kenya and the UK,'' a statement from Tuju read in part. 

''Apart from entrenching the lies in the courts, the malicious reports were an attempt to criminalise an otherwise civil matter. It was also an attempt to intimidate me in the grand scheme to scandalise my name before stealing our properties.'' 

The former CS further revealed that the bank's official lawyer (a senior council of the bar) went to court on Tuesday evening to try to stop the banker's arrest.

According to Tuju, on July 11, 12, and 31, 2024, during an affidavit submission in open court, a bank manager from the said bank admitted under oath that their colleague had lied in both Kenyan and UK courts.

''The bank's country manager even recanted the affidavit that was sworn against us on behalf of the bank that was before the Supreme Court of Kenya (SCOK),'' Tuju added. 

Tuju, however, took a swipe at the Supreme Court for declining to admit cross-examination requests against the accused official after it had made a ruling in favour of the bank. 

''In the meantime, the SCOK had issued rulings in favor of the bank based on the lies and statements that were recanted by its official. Despite our pleas that the bank official be cross-examined, the Supreme Court mysteriously declined to take this important piece of evidence,'' Tuju stated. 

Meanwhile, he revealed that when the truth emerged in a lower court, the whole bench of five judges of the highest court recused themselves from the case. 

''It should be of interest that the case by Nelson Havi seeking the removal of Supreme Court judges cites our Dari limited case as one of the grounds for the removal of the judges,'' Tuju noted

''The recusal by the bench of 5 judges has no precedent in the Commonwealth law and is also currently the subject of litigation in other fora.''