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A landlord has been ordered to pay his tenant Sh50 000 after he confiscated the latter's property following a rent dispute.
The court was told that the landlord took the tenent's television and fridge after a dispute over rent.
The court ruled that Ronald Ngulu pays Cliff Mbala the amount plus interest for six years after the Court of Appeal reduced an earlier ruling of Sh400,000 ordered by the Magistrates' Court and later confirmed by the High Court.
Trouble is said to have begun after Ngulu sent auctioneers in July 2006 to confiscate the items as a way of recovering a one-month rent that was in dispute.
The rental house was in Nairobi's New Garden estate.
Mbala argued he had paid all his rent in full and that he had gone ahead to terminate the rental contract with Ngulu and so the attachment of the two items was illegal.
The lower court had agreed with the tenant that the house landlord had accepted the contract termination notice and that Ngulu and Top Link Auctioneers had later agreed to release the said items during the case's hearing.