Uhuru's Cousin in Fight With Bank for Auctioning His Ksh3B Land

President Uhuru Kenyatta's cousin, Ngengi Muigai, has reawakened a two-decade court battle with a local bank after they auctioned his land at Ksh70 million.

In a report ran by Business Daily, the land in question, which is located in Kiambu County and valued at Ksh3 Billion, was sold by the bank in 2007 after Muigai defaulted on a loan.

In 2017, a three-bench judge at the Court of Appeal ruled that the case, which had dragged on for 25 years, had to finally close to protect the integrity of the court process as well as the bank which lawfully auctioned the property.

On Thursday, the embattled Muigai swung back into action at the Appellate court seeking to reverse the ruling.

Through his lawyer Marete Githinji, he told the court that he had obtained new and strong evidence that could reverse the Court of Appeal's ruling to favour him.

He argued that he had not consented with the bank prior to the auctioned and demanded that the new case be heard by a five-judge bench.

“The issues we will be raising are so serious because they are likely to affect several judgments issued by this court on the subject matter,” he argued.

Muigai had used the property as security for Ksh11.5 million that one of his companies needed to get a loan from the institution.

The bank, through its lawyer Philip Nyachoti, however, clarified that if the case was to be heard by the five-bench judge, the decision was not to be made by the court.

Judges Roselyn Nambuye, Milton Makhandia, and Jamilla Mohamed who received the file directed that it be forwarded to the president of the Court of Appeal to consider the request.