Daughters of the late Billionaire James Mwangi Kirung’o, owner of the popular K1 Club and Kahama Hotels, have sued their brothers over property ownership.
The estate in question, worth over Kshs2 billion, includes the popular K1 Club House the Kahama hotels located in Nairobi and Mombasa and Small World Country Club.
Also included are banks, houses, and land including a piece of land behind K1 club, two plots next to JKIA and two other parcels in Nyahururu.
The sisters, through their lawyer Jeremy Kimani, want the High Court to rule that the property is divided equally among all siblings and their mother.
They accused their brothers of shortchanging and excluding them from having their share of their father’s vast estate.
According to them, their father’s will appointed their mother, Eunice Mwangi, as sole administrator. Their brothers, however, manipulated the widow and took over the property, locking them out.
“That pursuant to the grant issued to Eunice Njeri Mwangi on December 7, 1998, the estate be shared out among the deceased’s beneficiaries in equal shares or in such proportions as the beneficiaries may agree upon and in default,” their lawyer told the court.
“The court distributes the estate as it deems just and reasonable,” he continued.
The sisters now want the accused to provide details of all business accounts involving their father’s property since March 1998 when Mwangi died.
