This archive report was first published on 8 June 2020.
On diverse dates between May 2011 and May 2012, two businessmen allegedly conspired to defraud Mary Waithera and Jane Wairimu Njogu of Sh 2 million in a land sale scam.
The scam, which was advertised in the Daily Nation newspaper, claimed that the businessmen were selling three acres of land at Countryside Coffee Gardens in Thika, Kiambu County, for Sh 2,250,000.
However, the accused persons, Joseph Gikonyo Thuo and Morris Mbuchu Gikonyo, knew that the claim was false and had no intention of selling the land.
Thuo and Gikonyo are also accused of making false allotment letters for the said piece of land and obtaining Sh 750,000 from Anthony Munyiri Kihara by falsely pretending that he was in a position to sell to him one acre of the land.
Alone, Thuo is also charged with making more fake allotment letters for the said property and purporting them to be genuine and signed by two directors of Thuo Inv. Co. Ltd.
On June 8, 2020, the accused persons denied the charges before Senior Resident Magistrate David Ndungi and were released on a cash bail of Sh 50,000 each.
