The late Homa Bay Senator Otieno Kajwang’s estate is in yet another tassle after his brother Joseph Okoto Ajwang’ took his widows to court.
In an affidavit filed at the court’s registry, Joseph Okoto Ajwang, once a confidant of the late senator, claims that although he conducted many transactions with his brother, a Sh15 Million debt has remained unsettled after his death.
Mr Okoto asked the High Court to issue an order validating the alleged debt, and that the money should be recovered from the deceased Senator's estate.
Furthermore, he not only wanted the debt paid in full but with an accrued interest calculated from the date the debt came into existence.
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The brother, though three years too late, now joins the list of claimants to Kajwang’s estate, which includes Dr Rose Bujehela Otieno and Faith Vivian Otieno, both claiming to be the late senator’s widows.
His family has been fighting over his vast estate, valued at hundreds of millions of shillings.
According to the Saturday Standard Okoto, asked the court to issue an order that a house in United Estate in Nairobi’s South C area be transferred to him in the event the estate cannot meet the Sh15 million he is demanding.
These included the payment of legal fees owed to a law firm, payment of a bank loan, a property in Nairobi and Kisumu, repayment of a salary advance loan to Parliament, money owed to Homa Bay County senate office.
The brother further demanded that a list of assets recorded in court documents by the two women battling for control for the late Kajwang’s estate be varied to exclude land in Migori and a house in Nairobi, claiming that both properties are under his name.
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These new allegations by Mr Okoto come amid an ongoing battle between the two women who claimed association by marriage to the departed senator.
