Pastor Ezekiel Odero, who has been in the country’s security apparatus radar, now seeks permission to withdraw Ksh 50 million from his bank accounts to enable him to run his school and pay fees for students he sponsors in an application he filed at the Milimani Law Courts.
This is after the Mombasa High Court declined to unfreeze his 28 bank accounts and seven M-Pesa accounts a day ago in order to allow space for investigations.
Odero asked the Court to review its orders; freezing his bank accounts from 30 to 15 days, claiming that the financial burden of running the school and his church could not wait for 30 days.
“The cash flow issues occasioned by the frozen accounts are causing a negative impact on the workers and students associated with New Life Prayer Centre Church and Kilifi International School,” he said in his petition.
Odero said he supports over 2,000 needy students who draw their school fees from accounts that have been frozen.
“Unfreezing six accounts that are linked to my school and church is paramount to safeguarding the best interests of the children, ensuring their access to education as a fundamental right,” he said.
He pleaded that the students he supports risk missing their fees for the second term thereby making them lack their respective educational undertakings.
The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) claimed that the preacher has been receiving huge transactions, suspected to be proceeds of illicit cash.
By Thuita Jaswant
Get more stories from our website: Education News
You can also follow our social media pages on Twitter: Education News KE and Facebook: Education News Newspaper for timely updates.
