It is saddening to learn that outright thuggery can be viewed as normal in a society. People con others all the time,but through more wily methods not the callous corruption so evident in government and citizenry in Kenya.

No wonder people also show scant respect for life too. It is the same trait.

Curiously,would anyone attempt the same trickery on a property having a mortgage balance? i.e would they be willing to steal the property and the mortgage balance too?

I don't mean to be insensitive but to me this story has so many gaps. I have been involved in the purchase of property in Nairobi and the process was really rigourous,it involved so many lawyers and paperwork and literally takes forever.

I don't understand how this guy could have his property sold twice without his knowledge,

- the second buyer (assuming he was the innocent buyer) had to come to view what he was buying,why didn't the owners caretakers tell him about this before the purchase was done.

- Again,the second buyers' lawyer should have done the usual land search and other due diligence,unless he was part of the collusion which would void the sale to the second buyer.

- How could this property be used to secure a loan by the first buyer,which bank is this. Besides,the rational move by the first buyer would have been to leave the bank with the property and keep the Sh.20m loan.

- And finally,the first buyer by divulging the details of the amounts he made from the proceeds should be aware that under the law all those proceeds (25M) will be recovered whether he purchased the property knowing it was stolen or not.

I am sorry if the story is true but I can't help picking up so many missing pieces in it,

A 65m ($1m) house is not a pencil that just gets stolen and life goes on. I don't understand this story.

Another piece of Kenya's Journalistic masterpieces








I guess if you can't win with facts,you can always pen bile-laced,xenophobic rants to distract everyone.

Indeed this is a sad story which goes to show one of many major failures of the government to protect its citizens and their rights to own property.It doesnt make sense for government officials to travel to foreign countries and tell kenyans or foreigners to invest in the country yet they(the govt) cannot protect the basic right of one to own property.well on that rant,i happen to know the victim Mr Wachira and the first buyer Mr. Murithi from a visit to san diego back in 2004.They both lived there but Mr Murithi moved back to kenya sometime back and i assume he must have known that Mr Wachira was building in kenya.Mr Murithi was known to pull some shady deals even when lived back here in the states including abandoning his property in the states when he moved back to kenya.I wonder what the law in kenya says about forging documents and selling other peoples property.The govt needs to shut down the lands ministry,clean it up top to bottom as they send people to kamiti for a very long time.Kenyans ought to be very outraged about this.

@ITZ

You just confirmed my suspicions,this is all a con job. All the characters in this story are lying through their teeth. They probably created the entire scam.

This story lacks mention of any specific people and does not demonstrate how the lands ministry was involved in the scam yet it heeps all the blame on the government.

Now ITZ is claiming that the owner and the first buyer know each other and lived together in the US.

The question now is who do they want to con.


I guess if you can't win with facts,you can always pen bile-laced,xenophobic rants to distract everyone.

I don't think I said they lived in the same house,I said they lived together in the US,these are 2 different statements

I guess if you can't win with facts,you can always pen bile-laced,xenophobic rants to distract everyone.