Christian dramatic wrangles are a shocker but they do exist since at the end of the day we are all humans.Retired PCEA cleric Reverend Timothy Njoya has filed fresh evidence in a Nyeri court to evict a woman who claims to be his stepmother from a four-acre piece of land.
Rev Njoya avers Mary Wangui is a trespasser on the plot registered as LR No.Muhitu/Thiha/324 in Mukurweini constituency.
He argues he is the registered proprietor following a certificate of confirmation of grant issued by the Nairobi High Court in 2004.
The land has been subject to wrangles between the Njoya and Wangui from as far back as 2005 when the cleric’s attempt to sell the land to Thika Coffee Mills was thwarted by Wangui, who claims to be Njoya’s step mother.
Njoya, in his affidavit, argued that Wangui was not his late father Njoya Snr’s wife and was in fact a maid. He further denied claims he was related to any of Wangui’s four children.
Mr Njoya explained that Ms Wangui’s services as a maid were terminated in 1990 following a discovery that his father had prostate cancer and needed special medical care.
Ms Wangui was unable to provide such care and her services were terminated, Rev Njoya said.
Upon the death of Njoya senior in 1966, Wangui reportedly established a residential hut in the piece of land – a move that has since led to bad blood between herself and the retired cleric.
“I was then served with her application for revocation of grant in May 2005 and learned that she was claiming to be a widow of my father and that she wanted to inherit it belatedly as it were,” Njoya said.
Aside from Njoya’s controversial land case, the cleric has been in the headlines in recent times for quite the bizarre reasons. In 2017, the cleric published a controversial book dubbed which elicited some explosive reactions from Kenyans who were adamant a man of the cloth was not supposed to think along such obscene lines.
Rev Njoya said he is the registered proprietor of the property following a certificate of confirmation of grant issued by the High Court in Nairobi in 2004.
Initially, the land was registered in the name of his father, Njoya son of Murere, who died in 1996 aged 88 years. He produced in court a copy of the land’s title deed.
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