By MWINGI TIMES CORRESPONDENT
A limited liability company of a petrol filling station in Kitui County is contemplating to suing the county National Environmental Management Authority (Nema) office for alleged misuse of its authority and mandate by arbitrary raiding its business, arresting its employees, detaining them in police cells without preferring any charges against them.
The proprietor of the Global Energy Petrol filling station at Kabati market, Kauwi ward in Kitui West, Danvin Distributors Kenya Limited, said a contingent of armed police officers drawn from the Kabati Police Station located the Ndollos Corner commandeered by the Nema county director, Catherine Adonga, raided their premises on Tuesday November 25, 2025 at about 11 am and without minding to contact them, bundled their two fuel pump attendants, Jacob Malombe and Nicodemus Muthui into a police vehicle and locked them in cells without justifiable explanation.
Danvin Distributors Kenya Ltd, the limited liability company, accused the Nema of imputing a sinister motive against it and claimed the arrest of its employees had caused it loss of unexplained amount of money and other items at the petrol station at plot number 22 in Kabati market, along the busy Kitui-Thika-Nairobi highway that connects Nairobi-Thika-Mwingi-Garissa road at Kanyonyoo junction.
The company said it was not notified of the impromptu raid and that it was not briefed whether or not it had committed any offence for non-compliance of the authority’s regulatory policies.
“We hold Nema responsible for harassing our workers, masterminding their arrests, detaining them in custody and causing financial loss to our business. We will be asking our legal team to move with speed and prepare charges against the Government entity. Nema misused the police to intimidate our workers,”
Kabati Officer Commanding Police Station (OCS) Julius Kurgat confirmed the raid, arrests of Malombe and Muthui and their detention at the police station. However, the two detainees were released on police bail at 7pm after depositing a Sh10,000 cash each.
Today, Wednesday November 26, 2025, Malombe and Muthui went to Kitui Law Courts for plea to the charges but police did not present their files to the court.
Neither Ms Adonga nor the OCS responded to our inquiries about the matter involving the suspects.
On Tuesday at Kabati Police station, Adonga declined to talk to this writer and dodged the writer.
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