Nairobi, April 14 -- A company owned by Collins Kipchumba Ngetich, a brother of Aldai MP Marianne Kitany, is the better half in a partnership that has seen government close down operations of Thika-based Kel Chemicals, the Sunday Nation has established.

Mems Distributors Ltd, where Mr Ngetich is the majority shareholder, successfully bid for the supply and distribution of subsidised fertiliser alongside Kel Chemicals during the 2023/2024 financial year.

Mr Linturi's supposed love affair with Ms Kitany has been the centre of numerous court battles over property, with the former consistently denying that he was ever married to her.

Ms Kitany's divorce case was in 2021 dismissed after the High Court ruled that Mr Linturi was already legal...