It’s justice at last for Reverend Timothy Njoya after the court has today allowed him to evict a woman who was claiming to be his stepmother.
In November this year, the Retired PCEA cleric Reverend Timothy Njoya filed fresh evidence in a Nyeri court to evict a woman by the name Mary Wangui from a four-acre piece of land.
According to Rev Njoya, Ms. Wangui was a trespasser on the plot registered as LR No.Muhitu/Thiha/324 in Mukurweini constituency which was initially registered in the name of his father, Njoya wa Murere, who died of prostate cancer in 1996 aged 88.
In a statement filed before Senior Principal Magistrate Phillip Mutua through Kamau Kuria Advocates, Reverend Njoya said that he is the registered owner of the property and has a certificate of confirmation of grant issued by the High Court in Nairobi in 2004.
The court ruled has to day ruled in Rev. Njoya’s favor saying that Mary Wangui Maina is a trespasser and dismissed her argument that she was a widow of Njoya’s late father.
Wangui, in her court documents, insisted that she was Murere’s wife having cohabited with him in 1977 until his death in 1996.
However, in his witness statement, Rev. Njoya indicated that Wangui was only his father’s house-help adding that neither her nor her four children were related to the late Murere as she had earlier claimed in her affidavit.
Njoya further explained that her services were terminated in 1990 because his father needed special medical care for prostate cancer.
Rev. Njoya also told the court that the woman had built a hut in the land a few years after his father passed away.He further indicated that he first heard Ms. Maina allegations when he planned to sell the parcel of land to Thika Coffee Mills Ltd in 2005.
“It was when I was served with her application for revocation of grant in May 2005, that I learned that she was claiming to be a widow of my father and that she wanted to inherit it belatedly,” stated Njoya.
Do you think the court should have considered giving Ms. Wangui a small piece of the land?