A Nairobi court on Monday, January 17 issued a warrant of arrest against businesswoman Phyllis Ngirita for failing to appear in court for the hearing other KSh 20 million tax evasion case.
The businesswoman is accused of failing to pay taxes amounting to the aforementioned amount between December 2016 and December 27.
This is the second time an arrest warrant is being issued against Ngirita who is facing four counts of failure to submit a tax return and failure to pay tax.
In February 2020, Ngirita broke down outside Milimani Law Courts noting tthat her son could no longer converse in German, adding that he was slowly deteriorating into a chokoraa.
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She further claimed that all this stemmed from the fact that the boy could no longer attend Pembroke School due to an outstanding KSh 3.4 million debt.
"The young boy is no longer in school and slowly by slowly edging towards turning into a chokoraa. He can no longer speak German, he now only speaks Kiswahili, Kikuyu, and English," she explained.
She went on to plead with President Uhuru Kenyatta to step in and help her family out, which she felt was made to bear the heaviest brunt of the NYS corruption scandal.
“I want the President to know that we are being persecuted. My family has been through a lot. Even if I am a suspect, we have been persecuted for two years. I used to work and all my money is stuck at NYS. I’d rather die or been thrown in jail than go through this
"The individuals who made up the list of the NYS scandal suspects could fill an entire SGR train. Where are they now? My family has been sacrificed to cover all these individuals," she lamented.
