A commercial and legal dispute is brewing between the highest decision-making organ of the Catholic Church in this country and the management of a city restaurant – Al Yusra Restaurant Limited – over tenancy rights.
The Somali-owned food outlet along Kimathi Street, Nairobi, signed a six-year lease starting December 2013 for a section of Waumini House, headquarters of the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops Secretariat, in Westlands, Nairobi, for the opening of a branch.
The lease was signed on behalf of the bishops by property agents Knight Frank Limited.
However, the bishops, through lawyer Charles Kanjama, now want the lease terminated, saying it was signed without their “express written consent”.
Al Yusra Restaurant Managing Director Abdull Wahab told the Star yesterday that they had already spent Sh18.5 million on renovating the premises and continue to “incur losses” due to the delayed opening of the branch. He said they had paid Sh2.1 million in rent.
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