Family wealth has turned to be a great enemy of peace breaking families apart.The Kenyan courts can testify of this by the numerous number of land cases that are piling in the offices.
Every once in a while we have also heard of extreme measures taken by individuals scrambling for inheritance including falsifying information that lands a sibling behind bars inorder to succeed in ambitions to block them out of the properties.
After the family of former Vice President Kijana Wamalwa taking the headlines in their inheritance feud, Kisumu governor Anyang’ Nyong’o’s family is back to steal the lime light from them.
The county boss moved to the appellate court to overturn a directive that his nephews be included on the list of beneficiaries.
In a ruling on October 11 last year, Justice Thripsisa Cherere revoked the administrative letters that placed Prof Nyong’o and Dr Nyagoy as the sole controllers of the estate and appointed one of the nephews, Mr Kenneth Okuthe, as a co-administrator of the late Hesbon Shimei Nyong’o’s estate, which is valued at more than Sh200 million.
According to Mr Jefferson Museve, Prof Nyong’o’s lawyer, the fresh application at the appellate court is very promising to them.
He added that they will be filing a response to the application made by Mr Okuthe regarding the contempt of court proceedings against the governor and his siblings.
Mr Okuthe wanted the county boss and three of his sisters — Ms Susan Muthune, Ms Esther Nyong’o and Ms Mary Owiti — be jailed for six months for failing to comply with the court order.
In the application that has been certified urgent, Mr Okuthe, through lawyer Rogers Mugumya, wants the court to issue an order compelling the administrators to deposit on a joint interest earning account all proceeds collected from the deceased’s properties pending hearing and determination of the case.
The application will be heard on April 9.Do you think this feud will ever come to a permanent solution?