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High-End Hotel Shut Down by NEMA
National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) Green Point office in Isiolo.
National Environmental Management Authority (NEMA) has shut down a posh hotel in Nanyuki for failing to acquire an effluent discharge certificate, a mandatory environmental license.
The hotel, which is located at the foothills of Mount Kenya, Nanyuki, moved to court seeking to bar the agency from arresting or preferring criminal charges against the hotel, its agents, or employees over the issue.
However, the hotel suffered a blow in court after Justice Mary Oundo ruled that the hotel had prematurely moved forward with the judicial review, subverting provisions of the Environment Management and Coordination Act (EMCA) and the Fair Administrative Action Act.
Blow for Nanyuki hotel in licence row with Nema
Thursday January 14 2021
By JOSEPH WANGUI
Summary
The hotel, Misty Mountain Lodge at the foothills of Mount Kenya, also wanted the court to restrain Nema from arresting or preferring any criminal proceedings against it, its agents, servants or employees over the issue.
But Justice Mary Oundo ruled that the hotel initiated the judicial review proceedings prematurely and in violation of the provisions of the Environment Management and Coordination Act (EMCA) and the Fair Administrative Action Act.
A holiday hotel in Nanyuki has lost its bid to stop the National Environment and Management Authority (Nema) from demanding an effluent discharge licence.
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