Police Forced To Storm Nairobi Church, Arrest Leader Over Land Theft
A widow and her children raised a stir at St. James Anglican Church of Kenya, which is located in Nairobi’s Buruburu Estate.
They requested the arrest of one of the church leaders for allegedly using their title deed to acquire a large loan.
According to Margaret Waititi Ndung’u’s family, the church leader accused of land grabbing misled them into handing over their title deed to acquire loans after making false promises to assist them pay off their initial loan.
Videos shared online show the 75-year-old woman screaming at the top of her lungs and lifting her dress in protest of the church leader’s filthy behavior.
Police raid a church in Nairobi Kenya and detain its leader for illegally appropriating a widow's property.
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Her children joined in the screams, claiming that the guy in the cloak had subjected them to untold suffering with his false promises.
She went on to say that the church leader was about to take her plot of land on the outskirts of Nairobi’s urban region of Ngong’.
The dispute over the plot of land began in 2013 when the widow took out a debt of Ksh600,000 citing her land title.
However, after she failed to repay the loan, the church leader offered to pay it off in exchange for her title deed.
The title was to be used as collateral in the promise that Waititi would return the man with the cloak later, with her grandson Kelvin Mburu admitting that the funds were borrowed from a savings society.
“She had a loan of Ksh670,000 from one of the credit savings societies. She was then brought a person who was to pay for her so that the land would not be taken away,” Mburu stated.
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Kizaazaa kilishuhudiwa kanisa la St James, BuruBuru leo
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However, years later, the matriarch was astonished to discover that the land designated for the Standard Gauge Railway project was not in her name.
This occurred while she was following up on compensation claims.
The authorities advised her that she could not receive compensation since the land was registered in the name of the religious head, who had subsequently transferred the data to his earthly properties.
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“The SGR people told us that our grandmother’s land had been hived into and so there was a dispute. That is when the church leader came and said that the land was his,” he added.
The church leader is also said to have used the same title deed to get a Ksh6 million loan, which means she (the widow) cannot receive government compensation until the loan is fully paid.
Following lengthy legal proceedings, a Kajiado court determined in May 2023 that the land should be given to the widow as the legal landowner.
The church leader, who was eventually apprehended by the police and transferred to Kajiado Police Station after being briefly detained at Buruburu Police Station, is reported to have used deceitful means to avoid the court order.
Police Forced To Storm Nairobi Church, Arrest Leader Over Land Theft
