The saga surrounding the wealth of the late city tycoon Garrishon Kirima played out again yesterday when a group of hired thugs stormed the town office to eject one of the siblings. The former assistant minister died last December in a South Africa hospital where he had been undergoing medical care. His family came on the spotlight after a tussle between his children and his third wife Terresia Wairimu broke over the onwership of family property.
According to one of his sons yesterday, their elder sister Ann Wangari Kirima and his uncle James NJunguna Kirima allegedly conspired to eject their other sister Alice Njeri Kirima from the town office. “My two sisters and my uncle have been mandated by the High court to oversee my late father’s estate, but it seems that the latter two have ganged up to intimidate her,” said Stephen Kirima.
A group of 10 machete wielding heavily built men descended on the Kirima and Sons Building opposite Jevenjee Gardens yesterday morning, as a group of administration police who have been manning it watched helplessly. The group, led by Ann had threatened to unleash terror to anyone standing in their way, before three of them were arrested after members of the public raised an alarm. They were however released by the time we were going to press.
Two months ago, family division judge Mr Justice David Maraga gave an order authorizing Ann and James to collect rent from Tumaini Estate in Embakasi. Maraga said the order appointing the two as rent collectors at the estate and other properties would not be reversed and barred Mr Kirima’s third wife, Ms Teresia Wairimu, or anyone else from interfering with the estate.
Tumaini Estate, registered in the name Kirima & Sons Co Ltd, has over 300 housing units with a monthly turnover of more than Sh6 million. The judge made the order when lawyers Fred Ojiambo and Jonathan Arwa said they had filed a suit seeking to wind up Kirima & Sons Company Limited, which they alleged, was set up to diminish the estate.
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