Former Tetu MP James Ndung'u Gethenji won a strongly contested case against his brother Gitahi Gethenji after the High Court gave him the go-ahead to control the Ksh20 billion estate that had been in contention.
The Daily Nation reported on Wednesday, October 9, that Lady Justice Margaret Muigai and Loise Komingoi directed that Githinji remains the top director of the companies identified as Kihingo Village Limited (Waridi Gardens) and Kihingo Village Management One Limited (KVWGML), which owns high- end estates in Nairobi.
This, they ruled, was on the grounds that he was the majority shareholder in both companies.
Gitahi Gethenji was seeking to wrestle the control of the company from the former MP who he accused of using his monopoly to mismanage the estate.
Waridi Gardens Estate is located in Kitusuru, with 55 housing units on a 37-acre plot with each unit alleged to be worth Ksh400 million, and a clubhouse.
Each of the high-end houses constructed with the companies stands on a half-acre plot in one of the most luxurious estates in the country.
The court ruled in favor of Ndung'u, who claimed that he had taken a Ksh800 million loan from the Commercial Bank of Africa (CBA) to develop the properties in contention.
The two brothers are sons of Joseph Augustine Gethenji, who was the Director of Personnel Management (DPM) in Kenyatta's government and a permanent secretary in the Ministry of Labour in Former President Moi's government
The former Tetu MP Ndungu Gethenji lost out to Nyeri-based lawyer James Gichuhi Mwangi, who ran on a Jubilee party ticket, while Gethenji contested as an independent candidate in the 2017 general elections.
Since 1988 when Tetu Constituency was established, the electorate have voted out every incumbent MP.
The constituency, which has 51,716 registered voters, is one of the smallest electoral areas in the country and had one of the highest number of candidates, at 14 in 2017.
