Updated Sun, October 23rd 2016 at 09:30 GMT +3The multi-billion shilling dispute between the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC) and a Dubai-based businessman over a failed TV channel has thickened after a city lawyer sought Parliament’s intervention. The businessman — Ajay Sethi of Channel 2 Group — is contesting KBC’s unilateral termination of Metro TV, their joint venture on a 24-hour entertainment and sports channel in 2009. Channel 2 Group Corporation was a joint venture between Sethi and KBC management, which began in 2006 and was to end to 2017. In the petition, Mboya attached 16 documents that have been tabled at the arbitration process, including a witness statement of former KBC Company Secretary Hezron Oira supporting the businessman’s case. The four include media operative George Lutta, a technical services manager at KBC at the time, Thomas Onduso, Francis Kimore and Robert Kung’u.

Source: Standard Digital October 23, 2016 06:33 UTC