Nakuru politician Nicholas Karunjigi Munyua charged with forgery, Sh70million land fraud
Nakuru politician and ex-gubernatorial aspirant in the 2022 General Elections Nicholas Karunjigi Munyua has been charged before the Milimani Law Courts in Nairobi for allegedly forging land documents to fraudulently acquire land worth Sh70million.
Karunjigi was arraigned before Milimani Senior Principal Magistrate Dolphina Alego on October 25, 2024 but he denied the charges.
He vied for the position of Nakuru governor during the 2022 polls as an independent candidate.
Karunjigi was charged with making a document without authority against Section 357(a) as read with Section 357(b) of the Penal Code.
The court was informed that on April 26,2023 at unknown place and with intentions of defrauding, Karunjigi made a certificate of lease for LR No. Nairobi block 112/72 in the name of Florence Nyanjihia Kabata and John Kamau Ngugi purporting it to be genuine certificate of lease issued at Nairobi Nairobi Land Registry.
Karunjigi faced a second count of obtaining land registration by false pretenses against the law.
He was charged that August 14, 2008 at Nairobi Land Registry within Nairobi county, he willfully and unlawfully procured for himself a certificate of lease for the said above land measuring 0.3091 hectares by falsely pretending that he were the sole rightful owner knowing it was untrue.
In the third count, Karunjigi was charged with conspiracy to defraud contrary to the law.
He was charged that on diverse dates between October 30,2022 and March 5,2023 at unknown place within the country, jointly with others not before court, they conspired to defraud Edward Ndumari Mungatana and Martha Francesca Mugure of their parcel of land mentioned above valued at Sh70million.
He is said to have pretended that he had purchased the said parcel of land knowing it was untrue.
In the last count, he was charged with obtaining money by false pretences against the law.
The accused was charged that on diverse dates between February 8,2023 and October 20,2023, he obtained Sh29,800,000 from John Kamau Ngugi and Florence Nyanjihia Kabata by falsely pretending that he was in a position to sell to them a parcel of land mentioned above.
Karunjigi denied all the charges and was released on Sh5million bond or an alternative cash bail of Sh1million.
