Nzoia Sugar denies staging kidnap, torture of it chief executive
The Nzoia Sugar Company management has denied having a hand in the abduction and torture of the firms Acting Managing Director Michael Kulundu and asked the police to speedily apprehend the culprits.
Board Chairman Joash Wamang’oli rebuked individuals claiming that the Bungoma based-sugar milling firm had a hand in the incident. He termed the claims as propaganda and appealed to anyone with information to give it to the police.
Addressing the press in the company’s boardroom, Mr Wamang’oli said that it was impossible and unthinkable that the company would abduct its own employee as an intimidation tactic as alleged.
“On behalf of the board of directors, management and workers of Nzoia Sugar Company, I wish to highly condemn this act on our MD and also dismiss reports doing rounds in some section of the media that the company might have been involved in the abduction and torture of Mr Kulundu. All those spreading these lies are out of their minds,” Mr Wamang’oli said.
His sentiments seemed to be directed at the company’s workers’ representative Macdonald Wamacho, who, on Thursday last week, attributed Mr Kulundu’s abduction to the challenges facing the company, including the appointment of a substantive managing director.
Mr Wamacho also termed the abduction and torture of the MD as an attempted murder and assassination.
The MD was abducted outside Salmond Restaurant on the Kanduyi-Sikata road around 8.30pm on Wednesday where he had just been dropped by his personal driver.
He was found early Thursday morning by family members, who had looked for him all night. Bungoma South police chief Patrick Nyangares said that they had launched investigations into the matter.
Mr Kulundu was appointed the acting MD early 2017 after the then managing director, Mr Godfrey Wanyonyi, alongside six senior managers at the firm, were suspended on charges of abuse of office.