Former Lugari MP Cyrus Jirongo. PHOTO | FILE
By BRIAN WASUNA, bwasuna@ke.nationmedia.com
Former Lugari legislator Cyrus Jirongo has claimed in
court that the son of former President Daniel arap Moi — Jonathan — is
linked to a firm at the centre of a dispute between him and businessman
Sammy Boit Kogo.
Mr Jirongo claims in suit papers that before buying Soy
Developers Limited from Mr Kogo in 1991, the businessman admitted to
being a proxy of Jonathan Moi who was the actual owner of the real
estate firm.
Mr Jirongo adds that he paid Sh7 million in 1992 to
Mr Moi as part-payment in his acquisition of Soy Developers and its
prime piece of land in Nairobi’s Upper Hill on instruction from Mr Boit.
The former Lugari MP has made the claims in a suit
seeking to stop his prosecution over a prime piece of land in Upper
Hill’s Elgon Road, and claims that Mr Kogo is using the Directorate of
Criminal Investigations (CID) director and the Director of Public
Prosecutions (DPP) to ensure that he is convicted.
The office of the DPP in February approved Mr
Jirongo’s arraignment in court over charges of giving false information
to the police, forging land documents and illegally using the land to
secure a loan.
The DCI claims Mr Jirongo lied to detectives about
giving Sh7 million to Mr Moi before using the Upper Hill land to
illegally secure a Sh50 million loan from collapsed Postbank Credit
Limited.
Both Mr Boit and Mr Moi denied to police that the
former President’s son received money from Mr Jirongo or that he is
linked to Soy Developers Limited.
“Mr Boit claims to deny any relationship,
involvement or connection between Soy Developers Limited and Jonathan
Moi yet it was Jonathan Moi who on February 13, 1989 applied on behalf
of Soy Developers Limited to be allocated the suit property.”
“As part of the purchase price, Mr Jirongo also
paid to Jonathan Moi Sh7 million in May 1992. Mr Kogo claimed that he
and his wife were simply proxies of the said Jonathan Moi who it was
said was the true owner of the subject property,” Mr Jirongo says in
court filings.
The DCI in its response to the suit says it found
that Mr Jirongo despite agreeing to acquire Soy Developers and the Upper
Hill land for Sh20 million, only paid half of the agreed figure.
Maxwell Otieno, a detective, says Mr Boit did not
execute transfer documents for the firm or the land hence Mr Jirongo
illegally represented himself as a director of Soy Developers.
He adds that the DCI investigations were opened
following a complaint by Mr Kogo, who held that the title deed to the
Upper Hill land got lost in Soy Developers’ offices.
But Mr Jirongo says the firm directorship Mr Kogo
provided to the detectives and which has been used as evidence against
him in the criminal case is not complete as they only exhibit who owned
the company before 1992.
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