BY NT CORRESPONDENT.
The owner of BuruBuru disputed property Mary Akinyi Ochola has said she has no intention of selling the property to anyone and it belongs to the Glad Tiding Crusade Ministry.
“Am not ready to sell the property to anybody whoever comes with millions or billions of shillings including Nderitu. The parcel of land is for the church and will remain that way,” she affirmed.
She further accuses her counterparts of forging documents over the alleged property. She added that the school was open to help the society within the area.
She was speaking to journalists outside Milimani Commercial Court shortly after court proceedings.
Mary’s daughter who is among trustees thanked Governor Sonko who responded to their call quickly and saved them from goons.
“What happened on Saturday was a shock. The event I witnessed was disbelief seeing people who came there armed with crude weapons and attacking children, teachers, women and men who were there and destroying property was a big shock and I quickly I called Governor Sonko who quickly came to our aid,” said the daughter.
This is after Nairobi County Governor Mike Sonko filed application seeking to set a side a consent order over the a suit property valued at Sh 100 million will now be heard on June 4.
Magistrate Edith Wanjala, was told that the businessman Patrick Nderitu who claim ownership of the land needs time to respond to the governor’s application to allow the matter be heard by all parties.
The trader’s lawyers, said that they were served with the application after office hours and they need time get instructions from their client.
The governor through his lawyer Harrison Kinyanjui,filed an urgent application following weekend’s demolitions at Glad Tidings Crusade Ministry where several houses were destroyed.
The court heard that due to the action that took place on Saturday many school going children have no place to go for their continued learning.
Nderitu’s lawyers had applied for fourteen days to reply to the governor’s application but the court declined saying the matter had been certified urgent and serious issues have been raised which must be heard and disposed off.
“The defence lawyers can only have three days to file their responses” the court said.
On Saturday a scuffle was witnessed when a group of goons armed with machetes and other crude weapons arrived at the church, where school children were learning, and started to demolish the building.
The goons reportedly claimed to have been instructed to execute a court order.
The governor was called by aggrieved parties he arrived at the scene, the goons hurled stones at him and his convoy, forcing security officers to fire in the air to disperse the rowdy group.
The owners of Kinderstart Primary School faulted the police for failing to respond in time to prevent the incident from happening.
Document filed by Sonko say that there was no consent or rates clearance certificate sought or obtained from the Nairobi County Government over the purported “transfer” of the suit property to Landmark International Proprietors Limited.
The County government says that following the weekends demolitions they checked their record and found that the rate payer and registered property belongs to the church and not Landmark International Properties Limited.
“From our land records the suit property is in fact in the name of the church Glad Tidings Crusade Ministry,” reads the court documents.
The plaintiff’s suit was filed in 2019 , way after the said ELC 1220 of 2016 and the same was clearly a conspiracy between the applicant and Glad Tidings Crusade, Christine Opiko, Fred Agwa, Edward Otieno all who are trustees of Glad Tiding Crusade) who were all long aware of the suit pending before the high court.
The governor argue that plaintiff obtained orders that are injurious to the Nairobi City County Government and Joan Jane Awuor Ocholla the abuse of the court process by failing to disclose similar matter pending before another court.
“Landmark International Properties Limited sought to unjustly enrich itself by creating an avenue to register a false and alleged “consent” on L.R. NO. Nairobi/Block 78/863, Buru Buru through illegal proceedings , yet there is no valid,, proper and lawful consent or sale agreement between landmark and the County.
