More Predicaments for Mukumu Girls As Storekeeper Sues them
The school has been sued for wrongful dismissal by a store clerk who was fired by Mukumu Girls High School for allegedly accepting tainted cereals that killed three pupils and a teacher.
On October 7, 2017, the school hired Chrisantus Mulimi to work as a retail clerk. He was fired on June 28, 2023.
He has designated Jane Mmbone, the secretary to the school board of management and the principal of the institution, as the respondent.
He asks the court to rule that the school’s alleged dismissal of him was illegal, arbitrary, and punishing.
In documents submitted on Monday to the Kakamega Chief Magistrate’s Court, Mulimi requests that the court make an order requiring the school to restore him and grant him damages against the organisation for unlawfully dismissing him and causing him unjustified pain and suffering.
Mulimi also requests that the court order the institution to pay him any terminal benefits and other benefits that may have accrued up until the day of his departure.
Mulimi claimed in his memorandum of the claim that the school administration had sent him a show-cause letter on June 2 based on untruths and innuendos in an effort to conceal a situation that was already known to the public.
Mulimi claimed that “the termination was initiated and effected unlawfully, arbitrarily, and without complying with the required procedures.”
According to him, the unlawful steps taken by the respondents to terminate his job were motivated by malice and amounted to victimisation and unfair labour practises that caused him to experience stress in his work, mental agony, embarrassment, financial loss, and damages.
More Predicaments for Mukumu Girls As Storekeeper Sues them
Mulimi was charged by the school with insubordination, carelessness of duty, haughtiness, and fraud in the show-cause letter that was submitted to the judge.
“On April 24, 2023, you failed to cooperate with the inspection and tender acceptance committees to make sure that the cereals supplied to the school were of the recommended quality. You were a member and secretary of the tender assessment committee. When the cereals were rejected and burned, this caused a loss for the school, according to the letter.
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“The stores had accepted inferior goods because of your indecision and incapacity to carry out your assigned tasks. The school had been experiencing health and medical issues as a result of this.
The letter stated that despite admitting that the food he got in the stores was unfit for human consumption in his written submission to the directorate of quality assurance dated May 11, 2023, Mulimi issued a certificate of acceptance reaffirming that the food met approved requirements.
