Nairobi billionaire Madatali Chatur is a troubled man as the court threw out his case after lamenting that an impending police investigation threatened his marriage.
A report by Daily Nation indicated that the tycoon who owns Diamond Plaza and Muthaiga shopping mall rushed to court to block investigations into human trafficking claims that the police had labeled against him.
In his affidavit, the businessman disclosed that the police officer's intention to search his premises was putting his marriage at risk as the move would taint his image.
He further dismissed the police charges as lies and claimed that they were trumped up.
He moved to court after the National Police Service issued him a notice demanding him to appear at the DCI Headquarters in September 2019 over the matter.
He also argued that he had no criminal record and that the case would paint him in a bad light and ruin his businesses, revealing that he was concerned that his tenants at Diamond Plaza would ditch the premises.
He further noted that he suffered from psychological, mental and physical torture since the police opened investigations into his activities.
The Office of Director of Public Prosecutions as well as the Inspector General of Police, however, opposed his petition arguing that the search of premises was covered under the constitution.
In his ruling, however, Justice Weldon Korir dismissed the petition noting that there was no justification that the search put his marriage at risk.
"The impression I get is that the petitioner wants this court to protect his purported “clean record”. The court has no such powers.
"So long as the respondents (police) are acting within the confines of the law, they should be allowed to proceed," she ruled.
"He does not explain how this is so unless he wants to say that his marriage is hanging on a thin thread. If that be so, he should not blame the police when the thread snaps," the judge added.
Police are, henceforth, free to pursue the case.
