UHURU Kenyatta and his mother MAMA NGINA accused of land grabbing.

Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta and his mother Mama Ngina Kenyatta have been sued by a relative over allegations of land grabbing.

Peter Muigai Ngengi who claims to be Mzee Kenyatta’s only surviving brother accuses Mr Kenyatta and Mama Ngina of wrongfully depriving him of his three and half acres plot in Ichaweri village, Kiambu County.

In a petition filed at the High Court 34 years ago after the death of the former President, Ngengi alias Wakameme says that Kenyatta and his family took land to satisfy their desire to expand their home to attain the status of a Presidential Palace.

However, Kenyatta’s father would always stop such ideas and sternly warned Kenya’s first President against misusing his powers.

Ngengi quotes in his suit papers what his father used to tell the president.

“Na tondu unene ni uriaga mundu ta karubu ndukanahitirie muru wa thoguo(because power intoxicates like beer do not ever encroach upon your brother’s inheritance).”

 According to Ngengi, the former President took seriously the stern warning by their father and never moved anyone from his land.

“All members of the family lived in joy and harmony in their portions of inheritance and neigbours applauded my father for his wisdom and love he had for his family,”Ngengi says.

However, after their father died and even before his body was lowered to the grave, the beacons dividing Ngengi’s and Kenyatta’s land were allegedly uprooted by the order of the President.

He says shortly after the burial of their father, Mzee Kenyatta ordered permanent removal of the beacons and his arrest. He was taken to Gatundu Colonial Prison and his house demolished. He says he went through immense trauma and sometimes without enough food.

Mzee Kenyatta is said to have ordered later that Ngengi and his family be built a house in Mutomo on government land but he was secretly moved together with his family to Munyu near Ndarugu river.

He says he has nine children and several grandchildren many of whom have died of malnutrition.

Ngengi now wants the court to make a declaration that he is entitled to compensation by Uhuru and his mother for dispossession before he dies…

The Kenyan DAILY POST