Pastor Ezekiel Odero has asked the High Court to lift orders freezing his accounts.
In an application, the pastor is also seeking temporary orders restraining the investigators from implementing the orders issued in Milimani Magistrates Miscellaneous Criminal Application number E1348 of 2023.
“That in the interim and pending the hearing and determination of this Application, this Honorable Court be pleased to issue a conservatory order temporarily suspending and staying the implementation of all the consequential orders and proceedings in Milimani Magistrates Miscellaneous Criminal application number E1348 of 2023 to the extent that the same seek to freeze all the bank account belonging to the Petitioner, New Life Prayer Center and Church and Kilifi International School,” reads court papers
The embattled pastor also wants the court to order the file before the Milimani magistrate court to be transferred to Mombasa High Court for purposes quashing the orders dated 8th May 2023 issued yesterday.
He argues that the state nevertheless moved a court inferior to the high court to determine a question already before this Court and pending determination.
“That at the time of filing the replying affidavit the 1st,3 rd and 7th Respondent failed to disclose that they had moved the Magistrates Court to determine a crucial subject matter of this petition.
He argues that hat the question and subject of freezing his bank accounts was already subject to the petition before the High Court and that the Directorate of Criminal Investigation, the Attorney General and the Director of Public Prosecution were aware of the subject matter of this petition to include the question of freezing his bank accounts.
“That the 1st, 3rd and 7th Respondent are guilty of material none-disclosure and have brought these proceedings into disrepute and rendering the same academic and nugatory,” reads court papers
