Here is the mistake that made KDF pay then Agricultural finance corporation boss and political cartel sh3 billion.
Justice delayed is justice denied for the poor but for deep State cartels, justice delayed doubles the compensation price.
Lest we forget 2017,
Early 2017, the High Court ordered the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) to pay Sh3 Billion to a company owned by Deputy President William Ruto’s business associate and political ally.
In the ruling made by Justice George Odunga, the Department of Defense (DoD), which handles the logistics for KDF, was orderes to pay Torino Entreprises – a real estate company – Sh1.53 Billion with accrued interest from 2011 when the firm first won its battle for compensation – taking the total sum owed to Sh3.01 Billion as of December 2016.
In the case against KDF, the DoD was also ordered to cater for the legal costs of the whole case, which was filed over the disputed ownership of a 90-acre piece of land that the military took over 11 years ago and is now part of the Embakasi Army Barracks.
Torino Enterprises moved to court to challenge what they called forceful occupation of their prime piece of land.
The first judgement on the matter was won by Torino after High Court Judge Jean Gacheche awarded the firm the Sh1.53 Billion together with 12 percent interest from the date of judgment until when the case would be heard.
The aggrieved company went back to court in August last year to petition the High Court to force KDF to release the payment.
The DoD responded by submitting that the payment was not made because of failure to include the amounts in the 2016/2017 budget.
Judge Odunga, however, ruled in favour of the real estate company. Torino is owned by three businessmen including Ruto’s business partner Patrick Osero.
Patrick Osero is the same controversial businessman that claimed to have acquired the Land Ruto’s Weston Hotel was erected. DP Ruto confirmed of being a share holder of the firm that allegedly bought the land from.
The slained whistleblower Jacob Juma said this in 2015.
@MohaJichoPevu @OkiyaOmtatah Hon William Ruto owns Weston hotel. Maruti architect who designed it for him also designed my Karen home.
— jacob juma (@kabetes) January 20, 2015
In 2015, Deputy President William Ruto’s posh hotel Property number of the land on which Weston Hotel stands was reportedly used to irregularly acquire the 2.7-acre parcel in Westlands.
At the center of all this, Further reports indicate DP Ruto’s ally and business associate, Patrick Osero, allegedly used the Interim Reference (I.R.) number to acquire the Westlands prime property.
An I.R. number is usually issued by the office of the Director of Survey when land is mapped out before the title deed is issued.
@KevineOmollo @bonifacemwangi the land where Weston is built belongs to Civil Aviation Authority. Patrick Osero is Ruto's point man .
— jacob juma (@kabetes) January 20, 2015
While Ruto prepared to defend his ownership of the Weston land in April last year, a judgement was being delivered on the Westlands property, which had been in court for 12 years, by Justice Kossy Bor.
She ruled that Osero’s company, Pridegrove Investments Limited, irregularly acquired the land using an I.R. number that had already been allocated to the Weston land.
In December 2006, a company known as Southfork Investments sued Osero’s company seeking to recover the land. It was alleged that Southfork bought the land from Sky Properties Limited in 1994 for Ksh 2 million. They, however, delayed to develop it due to the fact that the government’s lease was to expire six years later.
Southfork almost lost the 2.7-acre property valued at approximately Ksh1.3 billion in its first attempt to renew the lease.
However, a new ownership document was created and registered to Pridegrove upon Southfork’s decision to surrender its title deed to the Lands commissioner during the application to extend the government lease.
“There were no records at the lands office pertaining to Pridegrove’s title. The deed plan annexed to Pridegrove’s title was disowned by the director of survey,” City Hall disclosed Nairobi confirming that the land belonged to Sky Properties, which legally transferred it to Southfork in 1994.
