Attention has been brought to me through my team of the letter you have written and circulated in public.

I am calling on the East African Development Bank (EADB) to remind you that when you transact business within the Republic of Kenya, you have the obligation to respect the country’s territorial sovereignty. 

Following your legal wrangle with Mr Raphael Tuju and the information you have just recently released, I and many other concerned Kenyan citizens and residents are disappointed at how you belittle our sovereignty, our Constitution, our Judiciary and our ex-chequer.

You are using a colonial mentality to operate in a sovereign state with a 2010 Constitution. We are not a colony. 

To your public statement:

You seem to be cherry-picking information. You state that Dari Limited borrowed $9,197,084 in April 2015 and that the loan was in default by 2016 but you conveniently leave out the breach of contract on your part. 

The agreement was for a loan in two phases. Once you paid for the property but failed to dispatch the second phase of the funds, you disqualified yourself from being paid. The borrower was waiting for those funds to make the project viable. By withholding them, you choked the business and then demanded interest on a project you stalled.

Regarding your claim that there was no “credible repayment offer”:

I have been working with my team seeking the evidence you want to hide. Mr Tuju offered you a payment plan – a fact you are cherry-picking and avoiding in your statement. I am prepared to expose the documentation and the lawyers who drew that payment plan. It appears these lawyers were never even paid for their work. 

A demand for accountability:

Furthermore, the judiciary requested you last year to provide an audit since 2014 of how you have been taking and using money from the Exchequer. You have not honoured this request. It has been more than 365 days, and you have still not honoured it. Yet, you have the audacity to write to us claiming you followed the legal process in Tuju’s case? You did not, and you know it.

Abrogation of ethics and sovereignty

Look at how unethically you are functioning. You even take money from our taxpayers’ purse without the consent of Parliament, who represent us.

Respect Kenyan judiciary. Respect our tax funds. Respect us as Kenyans. Respect our territorial sovereignty. We are no longer slaves to financial institutions playing with technicalities. We are an educated population in a digital era; we can get the information you try to hide. Stop this belittling of our state.

• A Tell Media report / By Faith Mirunde Hakala – Ms Hakala is a public legal educator and a long-serving paralegal in Kenyan judiciary.