Phyllis Njeri Ngirita has pleaded with the High Court to allow her withdraw Sh800,000 from her frozen account, stating that her son has been thrown out of school.

In the application that was to be heard by Justice Mumbi Ngugi yesterday, Njeri said she has been subjected to untold suffering since her account at Kenya Commercial Bank, Gilgil branch, was frozen in 2018.

“The order has caused undue hardship to my family and paralysed the education of my children,” she said in an affidavit.

But the case could not proceed as expected yesterday, after Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) sought for more time to file their reply to the application. The Judge granted the agency seven days and directed the case to be heard on February 10.

Ms Njeri, whose company Njewanga Enterprises is accused of receiving millions from National Youth Service for goods not supplied, is among several business persons facing graft-related charges in court.

She is further accused of deliberately failing to pay corporation tax amounting to Sh20 million and was released on bond. She has been charged alongside her mother Lucy Wambui, her sister Anne and her brother Jeremiah Gichina.

In the latest application, Ms Njeri said he child’s school fees has fallen into arrears of over Sh3.4 million and has attached letters from Pembroke International school, stating that the child would not be allowed back to school until she clears the balance.