Court Reporter Nation Media Group The family of late President Daniel arap Moi says it did not sell the disputed Sh300 million upmarket 20-acre parcel of land to a company associated with Equity Bank Chief Executive Officer James Mwangi 12 years ago. While testifying before Justice David Mwangi Mugo of the Environment and Lands Court on Wednesday, Moi's lawyers said that those who sold the land to Mr Mwangi did so fraudulently and are being investigated for obtaining money through pretenses. However, Mr Mwangi disputes this, saying that he received the title for the property located in Muthaiga area personally from the late President Moi at his Kabarnet Gardens home in Nairobi while accompanied by his lawyer.
The ownership of the upmarket property pits Mr Mwangi’s Muthaiga Luxury Homes Ltd, United States International University (USIU) and Maestro Connections Health Systems Limited in a hotly contested suit. The estate of the late president, through lawyer Julius Kemboy, has filed a defence and a counter-claim seeking to evict all those on the land, and the parcel vested back to the Moi estate. Moi's lawyers told Justice Mugo that the late president lodged a complaint at the Lands Office and the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) saying that his title to the property got lost, then applied to be issued with a fresh one.
They also argued that a Gazette Notice was issued asking anybody else staking claim to the property to come forward, but that none did. In the cou.