A Cabinet secretary has confirmed she is embroiled in a tussle with a Member of Parliament from Murang’a over the ownership of a Karen home.
Cabinet Secretary (CS) for Labour and Social Protection Florence Bore said she has paid 10 percent for a house owned by l Gatanga Member of Parliament (MP) Edward Muriu.
The two are engaged in a bitter feud over the Sh120 million Karen luxury home.
The MP is at the same time likely to face assault charges after he slapped a caretaker of the house while demanding answers on why he allowed Bore to occupy the house before paying the needed money and even sign a sale agreement.
The caretaker has recorded statements with the police over the drama and asked to process the P3 form to enable the police to take action.
The first-time MP has accused the CS of forcibly occupying the house he is selling at Amara Ridge after expressing interest in the house.
Muriu said the CS is yet to sign a sale agreement or make payment and is using police officers to frustrate his efforts to move her from the house for renovations.
The caretaker is said to have received Sh12 million as part of the downpayment on the house.
But the MP argues there was no agreement on the same and is yet to receive the cash.
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There was a fracas at the home on Friday June 16 as police who guard the CS whisked away a man who said the MP had contracted him for repairs at the home before a new owner takes possession of the house.
When he arrived, he found the CS had occupied it.
Bore said on Sunday she signed her part of the agreement for sale and transmitted the agreement through her lawyers to the vendor’s lawyers for signing on their part.
This is her statement:
“My attention is drawn to the viral media reports on the sale and purchase transaction of a house in Karen between myself and a Company associated with Hon. Edward Muriu.
I entered into an agreement to purchase the property at a negotiated and agreed purchase price. Resultantly, I signed my part of the agreement for sale and transmitted the agreement through my lawyers to the vendor’s lawyers for signing on their part.
Their lawyers, Muriu Mungai & Company (MMC Asafo), acknowledged receipt of the signed agreement for sale by stamping on the forwarding letter by my Advocates.
In compliance with the respective clauses of the agreement, I sourced a 10 percent deposit from my Sacco and paid directly to the Vendor’s lawyers’ account via RTGS.
It was a term in the agreement for sale that the completion period of the transaction was 90 days from the date of signing the agreement.
We agreed that I take occupation of the house while I retreated to seek a mortgage facility for the balance, which I legitimately expected to obtain within the agreed transaction period of 90 days.
Unfortunately, in an astounding weave of events, in less than 30 days of the agreement, Hon. Edward Muriu and his Wife attempted to unlawfully evict my children from the house while I was out of the Country.
They were accompanied by armed goons necessitating the need for police presence on the premises.
For a colleague in leadership to take advantage of my absence from the country to run a hate campaign instead of waiting to engage me upon return is not only queer but baffling.
The dramatized and sensational allegations are fabricated to unlawfully dissociate from the agreement ostensibly because they have found a “better deal.
The transaction was a private engagement between a willing seller and a willing buyer, both parties duly represented by lawyers in total conformity with the law.
The media pitch was therefore unwarranted and ancillary to the transaction.
Thank you.
Hon. Florence Bore.”
