Was the house Ngaruiya’s mother rejected Uhuru’s gift? More details come to fore

The house built for Dennis Ngaruiya’s family allegedly on orders from President Uhuru Kenyatta has not been occupied.

Until Thursday painters were doing final touches on the exterior of the two-bedroom house constructed as a reward to the family of Dennis Ngaruiya who in 2014 presented a poem before President Kenyatta at 3 Kenya Riffles barracks in Lanet.

The presentation earned him and his mother Damaris Wambui an invitation to Statehouse where he was rewarded with a scholarship and promised a home.

While the President has religiously paid for Ngaruiya’s school fees who was then a class seven pupil and now in Form Four, the promise for a home has been controversial with his mother, Damaris Wambui recently rejecting the house.

“That is not the gift the President meant for my son and I. It has cracks and looks more of a semi-permanent house. It was occupied before by a disabled person and was only refurbished,” Wambui told the press last week.

So the question is; was really Uhuru’s gift or there is a foul play with state house men that the president is not aware of. Wambui’s neighbours have shed some light on the matter.

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Residents of Murunyu area however dismiss Wambui’s claims.

According to Isaac King’ori who lives close to the proposed home, the land on which the house sits was subdivided in 2015 and construction started in 2016.

“The house was constructed on land that had been idle for years after subdivision into eight plots. I visited the site severally in 2016 out of curiosity on the technology that was being used,” said King’ori.

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He added that he has been waiting since then to know who would be their new neighbour for years and no one except government operatives and the contractor have been spotted at the site.

“After the house was completed, bush grew around it. No one has ever lived in it. We never knew who owned it until we saw reports in the press that the intended owner had rejected it”.

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The head of state has never publicly commented on the matter.

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