MILIMANI LAW COURT, Nairobi, August 4 –Former Lands Commissioner and ex-Baringo Central MP Sammy Mwaita was today arraigned at the Milimani Law Courts.
Mr Mwaita is facing multiple charges related to a land fraud scheme involving property worth Sh150 million.
He is charged with unlawfully creating two title deeds with the intent to defraud the rightful owners of two prime parcels of land.
The prosecution told court that Mwaita and his co-accused, Brian Kiplangat, conspired on or before March 30, 2001 to fraudulently generate title documents for Grant Title Land Reference No. 209/9968 IR No. 85847 without legal authority.
The forged documents were intended to defraud Rose Njoki King’au of land designated as Plot No. “A”.
Prosecution further revealed that Mwaita, while serving in public office, fraudulently registered both Plot “A” and an adjacent parcel identified as Plot “B”, without the consent or knowledge of their respective owners, Rose Njoki King’au and Micugu Wagatharia an act that constituted abuse of office.
In addition to the fraud charges, Mwaita faces several other counts, including conspiracy to commit a felony, and making a document without authority.
They also include two counts of abuse of office and a further two counts of giving false information to public officers.
The court heard that Mwaita misled the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) officers in March 2020, falsely claiming that the disputed parcels belonged to Shaba Trustees Haba Ltd claims he knew to be untrue.
The intention, Prosecution stated, was to prompt DCI investigators to recommend criminal charges against the rightful land owners.
Mwaita’s co-accused, Kiplangat, failed to appear for plea-taking, prompting Senior Principal Magistrate Ben Mark Ekhubi to issue a summons for his appearance on Tuesday.
Mwaita pleaded not guilty to all charges and was released on a bond of Sh10 million or an alternative cash bail of Sh2 million, with two sureties.
