JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
The appellant joined the respondent company in 1992 and had worked for it for twenty two years when he was dismissed from its employment. At the time material to this appeal he was working as a weighbridge clerk at a monthly salary of Kshs.182,905.16. The facts leading to his dismissal may be briefly stated as follows;
It was alleged, first that on 26th June 2014, while working as a weighbridge clerk he weighed two trucks KBJ 425C and KBH 984R which were supplying scrap tyres to the respondent’s premises, in which, despite their difference in tare weight he issued tickets indicating that they had exactly the same gross weight. Secondly it was alleged that the appellant generated weighbridge tickets confirming receipt of scrap tyres despite the fact that there was no corresponding entry or exit of the trucks in the security log book, an indication that infact the trucks did not enter or exit the plant. A show cause letter was subsequently addressed to him along thes…