Former driver Davis Mburu Karanja from Murang’a County has sued Governor Irungu Kang’ata for allegedly using his name without permission for a Senate petition.
In June 2019, when Kang’ata was a senator, he filed a petition seeking support for the crash victims’ families.
The crash killed 157 people, including 32 Kenyans in Ethiopian crash.
Karanja claims that his name, along with those of seven other former employees, was included in the petition.
He stated that he had no family or social connection to anyone on the plane and only discovered his name had been used in October 2024.
According to court records, Kang’ata told the court he knew the people listed in the petition and he had advised them to file it because he had a conflict of interest.
However, Karanja said it is not true arguing that all the people listed were former staff members of Kang’ata and had no real link to the crash.
