Media mogul S.K. Macharia has instituted a case against Director of Criminal Investigations George Kinoti.
The content of the suit was a controversial Ksh2 billion land title that the businessman had bought from Mama Ngina Kenyatta in 1982.
According to Miscellaneous Application No 356 of 2000 obtained by Kenyans.co.ke, the court ruled that the land rightfully belonged to the media mogul.
Macharia told a leading news outlet in March 2020 that DCI Kinoti refused to give him back the title even after the court confirmed that he had genuinely bought the land from Mama Ngina.
The businessman initially lost the title in 2001 after a criminal case was instituted against him. The suit claimed that the title was acquired through fraud.
The 4.7-acre of land located near Karura Forest in Nairobi has been in dispute since 1997. The contention began after Macharia tried to sell the land to Kenya Reinsurance Corporation for Ksh550 million.
Before the transaction was complete, President Uhuru Kenyatta’s cousin, Ngengi Muigai stopped the sale, claiming that Macharia and his business partner Joseph Kibe had forged the titles of the land.
Kibe and Machari were subsequently arrested in March 2000 and ownership documents related to the land confiscated by the DCI.
Court documents obtained by Kenyans.co.ke showed that the duo was charged in the senior principal magistrate’s court in Kibera in Criminal Case No 2560 of 2000 with 5 counts including forgery and fraud.
Macharia wants the court to declare that the holding of the title by the DCI is illegals and order its release.
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