Land Cabinet Secretary Alice Wahome has threatened to sue Kiambu Senator Karungo wa Thang'wa over claims of being involved in a land-grabbing scheme in Ruiru.
While speaking during a political rally in the company of the Democracy for Citizens' Party (DCP) leader Rigathi Gachagua on Sunday, Thang'wa claimed that the CS was in cahoots with her daughter and President William Ruto to grab land in Ruiru, asking landowners who had already developed the land to surrender the title deeds.
In a press briefing on Monday, September 15, Wahome declared that she would be taking legal action against the senator within the next thirty days for defamation.
"Karungo wa Thang'wa will meet me in court for scandalising me maliciously without any fact or any evidence, and I will dare him in court. When you find him, tell him we shall meet in court," she told the press.
Armed with the land documents, the CS claimed that the land had been tied up in litigation for years and that those who bought the land already knew this and did not care, as the land was sold cheaply.
She further relayed that the court had recently ruled, on July 10, that the land had been fraudulently sold without the consent of the rightful owners, the Kanyutu family.
In fact, CS Wahome relayed that she had once represented the family in one of the litigations before joining the cabinet.
As such, she accused the senator of deliberately trying to malign her character by perpetuating lies without even seeking her out to confirm his assertions before making them public.
"The allegation by the Kiambu senator against the Cabinet Secretary and the other person is false, malicious and intended to bring the Cabinet Secretary into disrepute," the statement read in part.
"Further, it is obvious that the Senator for Kiambu, Karungo Thang'wa, picked this issue to politicise the same, deliberately intending to mislead and incite the government with hopeless and cheap propaganda without any iota of evidence or any record to show to the public."
As for the involvement of her daughter, the CS denied the claims, stating that she was but a lawyer who was working with her partner when she was still a practising lawyer and had continued working in the firm.
She further insisted that she did not own any land in Kiambu county, was not involved in the ongoing court case and would not be intimidated by any of the political jabs being thrown her way.
