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KPC urges court to throw out Sh500m new claim filed by Lebanese firm

By Kamau Muthoni | Jun. 19, 2025

Kenya Pipeline Company (KPC) petroleum storage facilities in Nairobi on August 21, 2024. [Kanyiri Wahito Standard]

Kenya Pipeline Company (KPC) has protested the suit to freeze its bank accounts in a fresh dispute with a Lebanese firm, Zakhem, over alleged unpaid Sh500 million.

Barely weeks after the High Court threw out Zakhem’s application to freeze KPC’s accounts in yet another claim of Sh926 million, the firm’s lawyer, Ahmednasir Abdullahi, filed another claim—this time targeting Equity Bank, Stanbic Bank, Kenya Commercial Bank, NCBA Bank, Citibank, Co-operative Bank, and Absa.

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