Nairobi, Jan. 27 -- The High Court has rejected an application to suspend contempt of court proceedings against officials of Zakhem International Construction Limited for failing to pay a Sh460 million debt.

The company had argued that it was facing parallel legal proceedings from Azicon Kenya Limited, arising from the same dispute.

According to the Lebanese firm, maintaining the contempt of court case concurrently with the liquidation petition constitutes multiplicity of proceedings aimed at recovering the same debt.

This amounts to gross abuse of the the court proceedings, the firm's director Ibrahim Zakhem said.

The court, however, noted that the application was made without seeking permission to file the matter during recess as re...