Panyako under siege as auctioneers camp at his businesses

The Kenya National Union of Nurses Secretary (Knun) General Seth Panyako is a man facing many tribulations.

Some are believed to be emanating from past elections, and it is not clear whether it is the reason he has been out of the country, to find solace.

Recently, it has been claimed that auctioneers are part of his daily visitors as the unionist is said to be struggling to pay debts on loans that he may have acquired to fund heavy campaigns for the year 2022 where he contested for the Malava member of Parliament position and lost to now the late Malulu Injendi who is set to be buried on 4th March 2024.

His two business premises, the Branise Hotel in Kakamega town and Downhill Springs in Kaburengu along Eldoret-Webuye road, are targeted by individuals and organisations he owes.

Apart from banks, the Independent Electoral boundaries Commission is going for the throat of Panyako for failing to pay the costs in a 2017 election petition against former senator Cleophas Malalah, which he filed and was dismissed with costs.

In a rulling at a Kakamega court in an issue of 2018, Panyako was instructed to pay a monthly amount of Kshs.50,000 of the Ksh. 1,537,141 he owes the electoral body.

Panyako’s request to be allowed to be paying kshs.20,000 was rejected by the court.

Warrants of arrest had been issued severally earlier following his failure to start paying, and now a show course notice on why he should not be committed to a civil jail is in place.

But even as Panyako may soon be a guest of Kenyan cells for failing to honour the electoral body debt, shylocks are also on his neck, and they want to recover their money by whichever means.

Panyako owes Ngao credit limited millions of shillings, and it is not clear how he intends to pay as he is a man who many of his close associates say he is financially crippled from his past mistakes.