While some are taking their internal issues to the public through radio shows, some lovers have decided to battle it out in court with a promise of destroying one another financially.
Mr Daniel Kimani Kariuki last month filed a suit at the Milimani High Court claiming his fiancée, Ms Sylvia Wambui Karanja, had forged documents to squeeze him and his niece Ruth Maigua out of the inn’s ownership.
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.
The duo, had in 2017, procured the services of David Kimani Kinyanjui, as an advocate for their business.
As revealed by Tuko,the lawyer who represented a couple in the ownership of the contested KSh 300 million Ridgeways hotel and other properties has claimed his life is in danger.
In a letter addressed to the DCI, the lawyer claimed people working for the Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP) threatened him with unspecified consequences if he did not act as a witness in a case involving his clients.
The petitioner, he says, is the one who requested for the changes made in the company.This, he says, removed Kimani from being a director and made her girlfriend the boss.
He wants the DCI to offer him protection and investigate the authenticity of signatures.
The fight for the ownership of Ridgeways Inn-The Yard on Kiambu Road has opened a can of worms, with two erstwhile lovers fighting to take control of the business.
According to sources, Ridgeways Inn-The Yard opened its doors in 2011 when Ms Karanja’s father, Mr Alloys Kuria Karanja, leased a piece of land on Kiambu Road to set up the inn.
At the time, Ms Karanja was pursuing nursing and environmental management studies in Australia where she had gone four years earlier.
Upon her return to Kenya in 2013, Ms Karanja started helping her father with managing the inn. Her father was at the time unwell and in and out of hospital.
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.
Meanwhile, Mr Kariuki is under investigation for allegedly defrauding Danish firm MYC4 of nearly Sh 100 million.
His micro finance 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 Sh 98 million were repaid, Mr Kariuki did not remit the funds to MYC4.
Mr Kimani has claimed he invested Sh 800,000 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 has filed an objection, arguing that she has been joined to the suit irregularly.
Between Ms karanja and Mr Kariuki who seems genuine to you?