Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Noordin Haji Noordin Haji has made a second attempt to have the infamous KSh 500 million Karen land case withdrawn. Through Senior Assistant Director of Public Prosecutions Edwin Okello, the DPP claimed there were some serious inconsistencies in investigations hence the case had to be withdrawn.
The case has been dragging for months even as the complainant Agnes Kagure Kariuki, maintains there was a foul game played in the controversial piece of Karen land.
Kagure, who has been nominated for the position of Nairobi County Deputy Governor, claims to have bought the land for KSh 100 million cash in 2011 from the late Roger Bryan Robson before he passed away a year later.
Because Robson had no living family in Kenya, his British lawyer Guy Spencer Elms had a huge hand in deciding the fate of his property.
Spencer went on to face a lengthy court battle in 2017 after being accused of forging the Will of his client. Even as Haji seeks to toss the case away, Kagure’s lawyer insisted his client was merely the victim in the multi-million scandal. “Haji does not have an open book to commence and disrupt cases arbitrarily and more so in this case where the office had not provided proper reasons for the withdrawal application,” he said.
Predictably, the under-fire Spencer, through his legal team consisting of one Odero Osiemo, supported the tossing of the case since it had dragged on for too long with no substantial evidence incriminating the late Robson’s lawyer. Robson owned two properties in Kenya, one in Karen and the other in Upper Hill, Nairobi with both estimated to be worth over KSh 500 million. Because he fell out with his closest relative and brother Michael, he had very limited options as far as whom to leave his property was concerned.