This archive report was first published on 20 November 2019.
Published on November 20, 2019
Children of the late Cabinet minister Mbiyu Koinange are at odds with his step-mothers over the division of his Sh30 billion estate. The children, through their lawyers, argue that Margaret Njeri and Eddah Wanjiru, Koinange's third and fourth wives, did not contribute much to their father's wealth.
According to court records, Koinange had built a Sh30 billion estate before he died in 1981. Both Ms Wanjiru and Ms Njeri, who are Koinange's only surviving widows, had no children with the politician.
Lawyer Ashford Muriuki, representing Susan Kamau, one of Koinange's children, submitted that there was no basis for dividing the properties equally among the four houses.
