Former Nakuru MCA found guilty in a land fraud case

A Nakuru Court is set to sentence former Kapkures MCA Paul Kimutai and his friend Richard Kipng’eno.

This is after the duo were found guilty of four counts of fraud and forgery relating to a Sh30 million plot of land in Barut, Nakuru County.

Former Kapkures ward MCA Paul Kimutai (right) together with his close aide Richard Langat in a Nakuru court during the hearing of case in which they were found guilty of four counts of fraud and forgery in relation to a sh 30 million land in Mburuk, Nakuru county, the court will sentence them on February 6.PHOTO/Raphael Munge.

In a ruling delivered on Thursday January 30, 2025 by Senior Resident Magistrate Priscah Nyotah, the court found Kimutai and Kipngeno guilty of forging family agreement on October 12, 2010, which allegedly transferred the 6.6-hectare land into their names.

The Senior Resident Magistrate added that the two were guilty of forging the land title deed on November 14, 2012, with the intent to defraud Josiah Njoroge, the legitimate owner of the land.

The ruling also indicated that the l duo had forged a green card for the land on November 14, 2012, falsely claiming it had been opened on June 7, 1990.

“The prosecution’s evidence, in its totality, was consistent, logical, and believable, and it was not shaken nor watered down by the defence,” ruled Nyotah.

According to Nyotah,  the duo had failed to prove to the court how they acquired the land from their father, Chepchilat Rotich, after his death, without a grant of letters of administration.

The court cancelled their bond and that they will remain in custody awaiting their sentencing on February 6.

It should be noted that Kimutai and Kipngeno were arrested on July 12, 2017, and charged.

They however, denied six charges of forging and uttering false documents to authorities, for the land that now stands at worth Sh30 million, with intent to defraud Njuguna.

The case that has taken over 7 years saw several witnesses testify among them Inspector Stephen Agutu, who revealed that after investigations, it was established that Njoroge’s title deed issued on December 5, 1997, was genuine.

On the other hand, he insisted that the title obtained by Kimutai and Kipngeno on November 14, 2012, signed by then Land registrar Nyantika, was a forgery.

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