Billionaire businessman Jimi Wanjigi is being sued for allegedly failing to pay a debt he owes to a clothing shop based in Nairobi.
The businessman was sued by Fazal-The Luxury Boutique, a high-end clothing company in Nairobi, alleging that he had bought clothes from the store and failed to pay Ksh1.37 million.
Wanjigi moved to file an appeal at the High Court, refuting the claims that he owed the clothing company any money.
Fazal alleges that it sold the clothes to Wanjigi back in 2019, and let him leave with the clothes without paying as they viewed Wanjigi as a valuable longtime client and that he would eventually pay for them.
Wanjigi is alleged to have carried five pairs of designer trousers and two jackets from the Fazal store and failed to pay for them.
Ravello, the parent company that owns Fazal claims that it tried to reach Wanjigi multiple times to no avail and that all the WhatsApp messages sent to him were not heeded.
Fazal had taken Wanjigi to a lower court where Milimani Principal Magistrate D.M. Kivuti on January 22, 2021, ruled on the matter, ordering that Wanjigi settles the debt.
The moneyed businessman however is alleged to have failed to honor the magistrate court's decision.
Ravello has since filed an application to have Wanjigi's items auctioned in order to raise money to settle the debt.
In response, Wanjigi filed an appeal at the High Court, contesting the lower court’s verdict, stating that the lower court's verdict was predicated on "hearsay".
Fazal claims it is owed Ksh67,500 for a pair of Zegna trousers, and Ksh1.3 million for other five pairs of trousers and two jackets Wanjigi is alleged to have acquired from the Ravello-owned store.
Wanjigi is reported to have later claimed that a pair of trousers could not fit him, and failed to return the trousers or even pay for them, owing Fazal a total of Ksh1.37 million.
The tycoon has filed an appeal at the High Court, denying the allegations that Ravello sold the clothes to him.
