Dr George Kiongera, a medic based in the US, has insisted at the High Court that he is the legal owner of an upmarket 20-acre parcel of land in Muthaiga, Nairobi, saying it was sold to him by Kenya’s second president, the late Daniel arap Moi, for Sh500 million ten years ago.
Dr Kiongera said he bought the land in 2016 through his company, Maestro Connections Health Services.
Testifying before a judge at the Milimani High Court's Environment and Land Court (ELC), Dr Kiongera said that he had paid the money to Moi’s lawyers at Triple Oklaw Advocates LLP.
“I paid the money to Moi’s lawyers, Jinaro Kibet of Triple Oklaw Advocates,” Dr Kiongera told the trial judge.
The late President Daniel Arap Moi.
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He told the judge that a search on the ownership of the property was conducted by lawyer Stephen Kipkenda.
“Mr Kipkenda and Mr Kibet were introduced to me by Mr Moi as his lawyers, and I was instructed to deal with them alongside former Baringo Central Senator Gideon Moi in the transaction,” Dr Kiongera testified.
The medic said that the instructions to deal with Gideon Moi, Mr Kipkenda and Mr Kibet were contained in a letter sent to him.
He testified that he had travelled to the country from the United States of America with his wife in 2016 to sign the sale agreement for the 20-acre plot of land, which is also being claimed by a university.
The judge heard from the medic, who is based overseas, that he paid for the land in two instalments of Sh200 million and Sh300 million.
Dr Kiongera said that he had met Gideon Moi, the son of the former president, at a hotel in Westlands, where they had agreed that he would buy the land.
He testified that he could not pay for the land immediately since his Sh400 million had been lost in the collapse of Chase Bank Limited.
“Chase Bank collapsed with my Sh400 million, compelling me to find an alternative,” the witness stated.
Party Leader Gideon Moi makes his address on October 10, 2025 after President William Ruto visited Kabarak Home in Nakuru County.
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Due to the delay in paying the sale amount on time, he was penalised Sh50 million by Gideon Moi.
He was further required to pay Sh10million to the vendor’s lawyers, which he did so that he could salvage the upmarket property.
The doctor said that, once he had paid the purchase price, the land was transferred to him. Therefore, he told the judge, “I am the bona fide and legal owner of this prime property.”
He urged the ELC judge to declare him the bona fide owner of the land, which is also being claimed by the United States International University (USIU) and the estate of the president.
The judge also heard that Dr Kiongera had asked the administrator of the late president’s estate to deposit Sh2.5 billion in court to cover his interests in the land.
The judge heard that the late President had stated in evidence presented at the Family Division of the High Court, which was adjudicating over a succession dispute of his estate, that “he does not know Dr Kiongera and he never sold the Muthaiga property to him.”
However, the judge at the Lands Court heard that no one had contested Moi's instructions to Triple Oklaw to sell the property to Maestro Connections Health Systems Limited.
Dr Kiongera said that he had met the widow of a former minister in Moi’s Regime, Margaret Magugu, at the DCI offices, where he had been summoned to explain how he had bought the land from the late president.
He said the police had compared the signature of the late president with those in a bundle of documents.
Dr Kiongera is seeking a declaration that he is the legal owner of the property, which is also claimed by others who say they bought it from the late president.
