By Collins Wanzallah
A court will determine on September 2nd whether a businessman who allegedly defrauded the former Commissioner of Land Sammy Komen Mwaita a piece of land valued at Ksh50 million. Mr. Mwaita is also a former Baringo MP. The ruling was made by Milimani Chief Magistrate Susan Shitubi, who ordered that the suspect, Howard Mugambi Mururu, who is a Nairobi-based businessman, should appear in court on September 02 for the ruling.
Maruru had been brought to court on Tuesday, where he was to be charged with the offence of alleged fraud. The suspect lawyer, Joseph Mutava, who is a former judge, told the court that the matter was still at the High Court and that matters to do with the ownership and the land title had not been completed.
The court was also told that the legitimacy of the title was still an issue before the civil court. Mururu, according to documents seen in court, is accused of conspiring with intent to defraud Sammy Komen Mwaita of a parcel of land valued at Ksh 50 million by falsely pretending that his company, Mart Properties, a fraudulently registered entity, was the registered proprietor of the said parcel of land, a fact he knew and believed to be false.
He also faces another accusation of obtaining registration by false pretence in that on December 17, 2021, at Ardhi House Nairobi within Nairobi County with intent to defraud obtained registration of transfer of the land from Mart Properties to Howard Mururu Mogambi, a fact he knew and believed to be false.
