Daily Nation
July 28, 2009
http://www.nation.co.ke/News/-/1056/631592/-/ulifs0/-/
Catholic priest Renato Sesana Kizito has accused two men of demanding Sh40 million as a condition of dropping their allegation of sexually molesting boys under his care against him.
In a response filed in court by the Italian priest, he accuses Mr Michael Ochieng and Mr Michael Omondi Owiso of blackmailing and intimidating him before the sex claims against him surfaced a few weeks ago.
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| Father Renato Kizito during an interview at Shalom House on Ngong Road in Nairobi. |
"The petitioners have caused persons unknown to me to call me, urging me to pay the petitioners substantial sums of money amounting to Sh40,000,000 so as to drop the allegations," says Fr Kizito.
In the affidavit, the 66-year-old priest says he started the Koinonia Community Trust in Kenya after a similar trust was successful in Zambia.
Shalom University
He says the community planned to start similar trusts in Sudan and also establish a university in Kenya.
The sexual abuse claims against him, he states, are part of plans to jeopardise the registration of Shalom University, a process that has already started.
Fr Kizito denied sacking the two former trustees, saying that they were replaced by the board on May 23, this year. He accuses Mr Ochieng of taking away title deeds to the trust's property from his cabinet without his approval.
The two men moved to court seeking to be declared the community's trustees. They want the priest and three other persons de-registered as trustees of Koinonia Community.
In an application filed in court yesterday, the two say the registration of Fr Kizito, Fr Martin Wanyoike, Elia Ian Marlo and Catherine Nyambura as trustees of the community was fraudulent.
The case was adjourned to September 18 to allow the two men to file a replying affidavit.
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