A tag of war broke up after a couple that is apparently set to marry started fighting over the control of wealth.
Mr Daniel Kimani Kariuki and his fiancee Ms.Sylvia Wambui Karanja have been fighting for the ownership on Ridgeways Inn-The Yard.
Just last month Mr Kimani Kariuki filed a suit at the Milimani High Court claiming his fiancée, Ms Wambui Karanja, had forged documents so as to the ownership on the Inn from him and his niece Ruth Maigua.
A Kinangop-based lawyer, whose stamp and signatures allegedly appear on share transfer documents presented by Ms Karanja, filed an affidavit in the suit denying any knowledge of the three parties involved in the ownership row.
Lawyer Paul Njihia Njoroge also filed a complaint with police in Engineer, Kinangop, leading to Ms Karanja’s arrest last weekend in Eldoret.
Kinangop magistrate Georgina Okapasi ordered that she remain in custody for another seven days from November 5 to allow the police to complete their investigations.
Ridgeways Inn-The Yard was opened in 2011 when Mr Alloys Kuria Karanja, Wambui’s father after he leased a piece of land on Kiambu Road to set it up.
At the time, Ms Karanja was in Australia where she was pursuing a course in nursing and environmental management studies in four years.
In 2013 Wambui returned to Kenya and started helping her father managing the inn. By 2015, Ms Karanja’s father had left Ridgeways Inn’s affairs to her. It was then that she met Mr Kariuki, who was a regular patron at the inn.
Mr. Kimani also had some corruption going on where his microfinance firm, Kenya Entrepreneurship Empowerment Foundation, had in 2011 partnered with MYC4 to disburse loans to farmers. But the Danish firm has claimed that after loans amounting to Sh98 million were repaid, Mr Kariuki did not remit the funds to MYC4.
He was charged in Kiambu Law Courts alongside Mr Simon Kimani with running a microfinance without a licence from the Central Bank of Kenya. The suit is still ongoing.
The Danish Embassy in October, 2015 wrote to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations stating that it is keenly following the matter and hoping for a speedy conclusion, so that it can recover its funds.
Mr Kimani has claimed he invested Sh800,000 in Ridgeways Inn, and that he did a lot of marketing for most events held there. He also claims to have thrown in smaller amounts of money for the four years he has been part of its management.
Ms Karanja on the other hand has filed an objection, arguing that she has been joined to the suit irregularly.
Mr Kariuki says he, Ms Maigua and Ms Karanja incorporated Bebadis Ltd in October 2015 and used it to set up the inn and other businesses.
Both parties have accused each other of assault and reported to the police.
Mr Kariuki is this week expected at the Kiambu Law Courts where he is facing assault charges.
He has in the civil suit in Nairobi accused Ms Karanja of assaulting him and breaking a laptop he used to monitor Ridgeways Inn’s finances.
Ms Karanja last week wrote to Director of Public Prosecutions, protesting alleged harassment by the police on Mr Kariuki’s demand over a matter that is the subject of civil proceedings at the Milimani High Court.