One of the seven children listed as inheritors of former minister Nicholas Biwott’s estate has declined to take part of her father’s wealth.
Ms Rita Field-Marsham, a lawyer and humanitarian based in Canada has formally sought to be delisted from the one-fourteenth share that her father had allocated her in a will he wrote six months to his death.
She has not given reasons as to why she turned down the inheritance allocation in her submission made in December 2017.
“I am named as a beneficiary of a share of the deceased’s estate,” she stated. “I wish to disclaim all my right, title and interest to the share in the deceased’s estate.”
In the will, Biwott indicated that in the event any of the intended heirs declined to take their share, it would be shared equally among the rest of the family.
Ms Rita and Rhoda Jakobsoon are daughters of the Hanni Biwott who is of Dutch Origin. The former Minister married Hanni in 1965.
The executors of Mr Biwott’s will have held that the secretive document left behind by the ‘Total Man’ was made public to so as to water down claims concerning his wealth.
“It was decided to release Mr Biwott’s will to the public domain to hopefully quash some of the misinformed stories circulating about his estate,” the executors, Mr Keith Hamish, a lawyer with Daly & Inamdar Advocates disclosed to local dailies.
Mr Biwoot also left behind at least Sh10 million to be used by the executors of the will in the “maintenance and upkeep” of his grave and those of his father Kiprono Cheserem and mother Maria Soti, all buried beside each other, on their farm in Elgeyo-Marakwet.
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