{"id":609,"date":"2026-10-13T10:38:46","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T10:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/?p=609"},"modified":"2026-10-13T10:38:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T10:38:47","slug":"mombasa-county-official-faces-arrest-over-contempt-in-ksh-154m-debt-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/?p=609","title":{"rendered":"Mombasa County official faces arrest over contempt in Ksh.154m debt case"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"691\" src=\"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Ruling-og_image-1024x691.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-610\" srcset=\"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Ruling-og_image-1024x691.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Ruling-og_image-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Ruling-og_image-768x518.jpg 768w, https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Ruling-og_image-1536x1036.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Ruling-og_image-2048x1381.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Mombasa County executive committee member faces arrest for contempt of court over the county government\u2019s failure to pay a private company Ksh.154.4 million after rejecting its plan to establish a data colocation centre in the coastal city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Evans Ogada faces arrest after the Court of Appeal declined to suspend a judgment that found him in contempt for failing to comply with court orders directing payment to Kooba Kenya Ltd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The dispute dates back to 2017, when the county government declined to approve Kooba\u2019s proposed data centre, which the company intended to make the first of its kind in the Greater Eastern Africa region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In judicial review proceedings, the High Court issued mandatory orders directing Ogada, then the county executive committee member responsible for finance, to take steps to ensure payment of the judgment debt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, the county government failed to settle the amount, prompting contempt proceedings against the official responsible for implementing the orders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Mombasa County executive committee member faces arrest for contempt of court over the county&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":611,"href":"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions\/611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}