Court Reporter Nation Media Group The late President Daniel arap Moi 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, the High Court has been told. Justice David Mwangi Mugo of the Environment and Lands Court was on Wednesday informed that those who sold the land to Dr Mwangi did so fraudulently and are being investigated for obtaining money through pretenses. Justice Mugo heard that the late president lodged a complaint at the Lands Office and the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) that his title to the property got lost and then applied to be issued with a fresh one.
Vide a Gazette Notice, anybody else staking claim to the property was invited to come forward, but none did. The ownership of the upmarket property now pits Dr Mwangi’s Muthaiga Luxury Homes Ltd, United States International University (USIU) and 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.
In the counterclaim, the Moi estate says that the title deed used to sell the property to Muthaiga Luxury Homes Limited was forged and therefore the transaction is a nullity in law. Cross-examined by lawyers Kemboy (for Moi) and Maestro Connection lawyers Duncan Okatchi and Senior Counsel Charles K.
