Kenya, 7 January 2026 – In a landmark decision, the High Court of Kenya has ruled that money owed by the National Treasury to a company under an IFMIS contract cannot be paid until an outstanding debt to another company is settled, effectively permitting the debt to be recovered directly from government payments.<\/p>\n
The case revolves around a 2019 government contract aimed at supporting and upgrading the Integrated Financial Management Information System (IFMIS) the platform the government relies on to manage public finances and execute payments.<\/p>\n
The contract was awarded to a consortium of Kingsway Business Systems, Kobby Technologies, and Inplenion Eastern Africa, setting the stage for a dispute over work payments.<\/p>\n
Disagreement emerged between Kobby Technologies and Kingsway Business Systems over compensation for services rendered.<\/p>\n
The matter was first handled through arbitration, which ruled in favor of Kobby in October 2022.<\/p>\n
This award was subsequently converted into a court decree in July 2024, obliging Kingsway to pay roughly KSh 165.8 million plus interest and costs.<\/p>\n
Kingsway failed to settle the payment, prompting Kobby to secure a garnishee order in February 2025, a legal instrument that allows debt recovery from money owed to a debtor, in this case totalling around KSh 212.8 million.<\/p>\n
The High Court confirmed that Kobby had met all legal requirements to claim funds owed by the Treasury to Kingsway under the IFMIS contract.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kenya, 7 January 2026 – In a landmark decision, the High Court of Kenya has ruled that money…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[63,1100,1104,854,1102,1107,1109,1106,1098,1096,1101,1103,1108,1105,1094,302,83,1099,1028,1095,321,262,1097,80,96,261],"class_list":{"0":"post-9366","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kenya","8":"tag-africa","9":"tag-african-business","10":"tag-african-culture","11":"tag-african-development","12":"tag-african-economy","13":"tag-african-education","14":"tag-african-entertainment","15":"tag-african-healthcare","16":"tag-african-media","17":"tag-african-news","18":"tag-african-politics","19":"tag-african-society","20":"tag-african-sports","21":"tag-african-technology","22":"tag-analysis","23":"tag-breaking-news","24":"tag-business","25":"tag-continental-news","26":"tag-current-affairs","27":"tag-dawan-africa","28":"tag-east-africa","29":"tag-economy","30":"tag-horn-of-africa","31":"tag-kenya","32":"tag-news","33":"tag-politics"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}