By Chris Ojow
Two orphaned sisters, beneficiaries of
their late father’s house in a leafy
suburbs Westlands within the Capital
City of Kenya, humbly pleading
President Ruto to intervene as they
stand to lose the property their late
father gifted them to alleged land
fraudsters.
In an ongoing case before High Court
Judge in Kenya and in several prayers in
filed court documents, the shocked
lonely sisters alleges that they had
been given the house by their caring
responsible father as a gift nine years
ago.
The plaintiffs Ms Sadaff Shokat Ali
Gulam Hussein Habib and Sabahatt Shokat
Ali Habib request to court to grant
prayers baring defendant Abdisalan
Adan, the person they have accused of
developing unhealthy appetite and on a
mission to allegedly grab the gift given
to them and situated along Jaffa
Court within Westlands suburb.
Where in a brief ruling Justice Lucy
Mbugua of the Environment and Lands
Court granted orders preventing all
parties from engaging in further
activities in the property , as the
plaintiffs alleged contempt by the
defendant and a breach of court order.
The plaintiffs further alleged in court
documents that on several occasions
they have been stopped by the defendant
from accessing their property despite
the court issuing an order from any
further development in the said property
The plaintiffs were responding to
claims made by defendants Adan , that
the documents in their possession
alleging ownership are forgeries.
While documents filed before High Court
indicated that the plaintiffs late
father Hussein transfered the house to
his two daughters as a gift on May 27th.
The Advocates of the High Court
representing the plaintiffs were
contacted by African Times News Media
Investigation desk requesting for more
disturbing details on the ongoing issue,
but calmly responded that the matter
was before Court and they will only do
so after the determination.
As the issue attracted public interest,
following a recent statement issued by
the opposition leader Raila Odinga where
he condemned the actions of alleged
reckless auctioneer who demolished a
house belonging to couple within the
same area of Westlands, rendering them
homeless.
The auctioneer is alleged to have
disobeyed court order stopping any
further eviction but went a head to
demolish the couple’s house attracting
an uproar within the Country.
Cases of land fraud in Kenya is a daily
business, where genuine land owners are
losing their assets as government
officials employed at the Land offices
conspire with land cartels and
fraudsters in changing land documents,
contend and declare greedy fraudsters
with manufactured certificates and
with the help of a few rotten law
enforcers within the troubled area to
evict the real owners from their legally
acquired properties .
As criminal cases of hardworking
Kenyans, investors who genuinely
acquired land with genuine documents
being charged within the corridors of
justice and being accused of
manufacturing fake title deeds.
The daughters of the late Shokat Ali
Hussein moved to court under certificate
of urgency and in several of their
prayers seeking to stop alleged
fraudsters from claiming ownership of 75
million Kenya shillings maisonette in
Westlands Nairobi County Kenya.
The late Shokat Ali lived in the
property until his death. And after his
demise his two daughters appointed
Paragon Property Consultants Limited to
manage the property on their behalf
since they were residing abroad.
The daughters also denied rumours being
peddled by defendant Abdisalan Adan
that their father had advertised the
sale of the property and through that
advertisement he managed to purchase the
property.
Paragon took care of the property making
sure all the service charge was paid to
the management company Jaffa Court
Management Limited.
But trouble began in November 2021 when
their father’s former worker appeared
at the premises with people that were
said to be prospective purchasers of the
property.
They allege that despite the court order
for status quo, respondent Adan entered
into the property and threatened to
shoot the guards who had been stationed
at the gate by Jaffa Court Management
The house is within the same compound as
six apartments owned and occupied by
third parties within Jaffa Courts and
managed by Jaffa Apartments Management
Limited.
” I have since moved in and continue to
occupy the suit property since the time
I bought it from the late Hussein,” says
Adan in his replying affidavit
insisting he has all the proprietorship
documents.
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