Don takes on mother in inheritance dispute

A senior lecturer has sued his 86-year-old mother in an inheritance dispute.

Prof Gideon Nyamasyo of the University of Nairobi told the court that his mother fraudulently obtained letters of administration of the estate of his father, Mr Ernest Nzioka Mandi.

The lecturer has teamed up with his brother Jeremiah Kyeva, the husband of Lady Justice Grace Nzioka, and sisters Agnes Jessie Mueni and Evelyn Mwikali in the suit against Ms Dorcas Katumbi Ernest.

Mr Mandi was a Second World War veteran and worked as a teacher and  a farmer. He fell in and died in 1997.

ALLEGATIONS OF FRAUD

The four are objecting to their mother and her first-born son George Mutua Nzioka, a retired civil servant-cum-politician, being the sole administrators of the multi-million-shilling estate.

Represented by lawyer Alfred Nyandieka, they claim they were disinherited.

Mr Nyandieka told Lady Justice Beatrice Thuranira Jaden that they were seeking an annulment of the authority given to their mother and their brother.

“The mother fraudulently obtained the letters of administration with the assistance of her first-born son,” said Mr Nyandieka.

The lawyer said his clients discovered the alleged fraud in January 2014, when Mr Nzioka began to pull down a granary and beginning to build on a two acre property.

They accuse their brother’s son, lawyer Mutua Ngumbao, of perpetrating the fraud by declaring his grandmother and father as the only surviving beneficiaries.

Prof Nyamasyo says in his affidavit that an assistant chief in Mukaa location lied in a letter of February 1, 2001, declaring his mother and brother the only survivors of Mr Mandi.

The four accuse their mother and brother of misleading the court.

Lady Justice Jaden has restrained Ms Ernest and Mr Nzioka from selling or transferring the estate pending hearing of the case.