Impala Club has suspended three of its management committee members. The suspended members include the Charirman Dr. Tonny Monda, the Social Secretary Robert Sande, and the Honorary Secretary Phanuel Mathenge. The three have been suspended following allegations that they attempted to construct a Sh. 300 million hotel on the club’s premises without the consent of the club’s members.
In the second part of our expose, Bizna can reveal that there was no formal Trustee meeting to discuss plans to convert its private Pool Bar into a Public entity as stipulated by the club constitution’s Article No. 37.
In an email to the management committee by Ken Wamae, a member of the club, he urged the committee to involve members by disclosing the details of the on-going projects to no avail.
“Many members are deeply concerned about the approach to take on all these big ventures without even the basic courtesy to inform them in a forum like an SGM,” the letter reads in part. “Could the absence of this be because there are “other” motives… as many, members perceive? Why are you “dodging” the Trustees? They must sign any major leases where you are converting club assets to public use.”
In response, the chairman, in a letter to Impala Club members seen by Bizna denied that Al Pasha group was not paying a monthly rent of Sh. 50,000. “The correct minimum guaranteed revenue to the club is Sh. 2 million per year. He further wrote that that the cost of the bar extension canopy project was Sh. 1 million.
Similarly, he added that Al Pasha was paying Impala Club Sh. 64,000 for water and electricity. But in a license allegedly offered from Impala Club to Al Pasha Coffee Lounge and Bar Limited signed by Tonny Monda, Robert Sande and Phanuel Mathenge and seen by Bizna, Impala Club agrees to license a vacant space to Al Pasha , also entitling Al Pasha to erect a construction on the vacant space as it may deem fit under the conditions that “the company shall be licensed to operate the coffee house and barbeque restaurant at a monthly rent of Sh. 50,000 payable in advance on every 5th day of the month, and a 7.5 per cent yearly rent increments and a commission of 3 per cent of net sales payable to Impala Club. The rent and commissions paid to the club must not be less than a minimum of Sh. 2 million per year.”
Shockingly, one of the contracts to be signed by the management committee went unsigned. Additionally, out of the eight management committee members who ought to have appended their signatures to the contracts, only three of them signed. Although five of the other members obtained a court injunction barring Al Pasha from continuing with construction works at the Pool Bar site, the orders were apparently ignored by the three management committee members, giving Al Pasha room to continue building.
In charge suit against one of the club members Ken Wamae, the club’s chairman claimed that those opposing his leadership led by Ken Wamae were after his chairmanship. But when contacted by Bizna, Mr. Wamae denied this, saying the club constitution only allows members of the management committee to vie for the chairmanship. “How can I be after his seat when I am not a member of the management committee,” said Mr. Wamae.
In the recent past, two club members, Grace Mambo and Samuel Kanagi have gone to court seeking orders to stop the management from further developments on Impala Club’s land, which has been charged to Barclays Bank to secure a loan aimed at raising funds for a Sh. 300 million hotel construction. The hotel construction was part of the minutes seen by Bizna of a Special General Meeting held on January 22 2015.
- To be continued tomorrow
