Former NACADA boss John Mututho's son Martin Njenga has been caught up in cases involving millions of shillings, where he has been adversely mentioned.
The Daily Nation reported on Saturday, November 2, that Njenga was taken to court by a disgruntled couple after he allegedly defrauded them of Ksh3 million in a housing deal.
The couple accused Njenga of obtaining the amount from them after convincing them that he could sell them a luxurious apartment in a lush neighbourhood within Dagoretti in 2016.
The unnamed couple claimed they gave Njenga the money between June 2016 and March 2017 in six instalments as a downpayment for the three-bedroomed apartment worth Ksh8 million.
The publication reported that the couple first heard of the apartments during a program in a Christian radio station where Njenga was pitching the idea dubbed the Gold Apartments Initiative.
The requirement for one to benefit from the program was that they would purchase the apartments off-plan, meaning that interested buyers would have to pay a percentage of the property as a deposit before the developer built the apartments.
"As a small family, we were interested in buying a home for ourselves, that is my husband, young son and I. We met Njenga at an office on Othaya Road in Kileleshwa, where we agreed on paying the cash in six instalments," the disgruntled couple was quoted.
They narrated that soon after the payment, Njenga started acting suspiciously and even stopped picking their calls. It was then that they realized that the Gold Apartments Initiative had been a scam engineered to fleece people out of their hard-earned cash.
"We found from the security guard at his office that Njenga had begun acting strangely using different rental cars and only coming in late at night and leaving very early in the morning," the couple stated.
Several businessmen are also reported to have sued Njenga over Ksh7 million owed to them after subcontracting them to renovate several petrol stations across the country, after which he started cat and mouse games with them.
Njenga was reported to have developed the habit of writing bouncing checks to subcontractors, and sometimes writing checks to bank accounts that have been long-closed.
Daily Nation reported that Njenga was arrested two weeks ago and released on a Ksh50,000 bail.
