The explosive recording also raises questions about an alleged conflict of interest involving Bend’s VeGrid dispute. What happened to the Sh100,000 legal retainer?
Constitutional lawyer and Thirdway Alliance leader Dr Ekuru Aukot has found himself at the centre of an extraordinary public controversy after a leaked telephone conversation captured him launching an explosive verbal attack on a German investor who claims to have paid him Sh100,000 to represent him in a bitter business dispute.
In the roughly two-and-a-half-minute recording, Aukot is heard telling German artificial intelligence entrepreneur Hannes Bend that his Sh100,000 deposit is insignificant, declaring that the money is not even worth his weekend drink.
The exchange, which has attracted widespread attention on social media, takes an uncomfortable turn when Aukot repeatedly dismisses Bend’s standing in Kenya, at one point describing him as an immigrant scavenging in the country and telling him to return to Germany or wherever he came from.
“You’re full of shit,” Aukot tells Bend during the heated exchange, before insisting that he does not take disrespect from anyone.
The lawyer repeatedly tells the investor that he is bigger than the money, offers to refund the deposit and instructs him to leave him alone.
“Your Sh100,000 is not even worth my weekend drink,”
