This archive report was first published on 16 August 2019.
On August 16, 2019, a 59-year-old retired primary school teacher, Margaret Wangari Kamande, was charged with falsifying property documents belonging to a dead businessman in Nairobi.
According to the charges, Kamande forged a sale agreement purporting to have been prepared by a city lawyer, Julius Ndichu Kihanya, and transferred the property to herself.
The alleged forged documents indicate that she acquired the property in Umoja, Nairobi from Johnson Miringu Kagondu in 2007 through a sale agreement deal.
However, Kagondu died in the US in 2013, and his son, Lemmy Gitau, discovered that Kamande was demanding rent from his father's tenants in 2014.
Gitau had sought help from Dandora Housing Development, which sold the property to Kagondu's father in 1976.
Kamande was released on a Ksh.500,000 bond with a surety of similar amount, and an alternative cash bail of Ksh.300,000.
The case will be mentioned on August 30, 2019.
