Who initially new that after working so hard and eventually reaping,that there are those patiently waiting to fight over one’s wealth upon owners death?The society can really be cruel when greed and lies are in play.
A British lawyer in Kenya has been shot at, held at gunpoint and threatened with prison after a local politician seized a $6million(Sh601m) plot of land from his dead client.
British expat Guy Elms, 52, drew up a will for Roger Robson, the owner of the six-acre estate in Nairobi who died in 2012.
Robson intended to leave most of his estate to charity but businesswoman Agnes Kagure Kariuki, who was in contention for the deputy governorship of Nairobi, occupied the property and claimed she had bought it a year earlier.
Since December 2014 the property has been occupied by Kariuki’s men and Mr Elms has been held at gunpoint with his wife, had his house ransacked and threatened with imprisonment for allegedly forging the will.
Elms moved from Thurrock, Essex, to Kenya in 1994, and in 1997 drew up the will for Robson, who was born in the country when it was still a British colony and lived in Nairobi all his life.
Robson, who died aged 71 with no children, wanted to leave his estate to wildlife charities and to give some money to his English nephew.
But not long after his death, Agnes Kagure Kariuki – who was on a shortlist for the deputy governorship of Nairobi – claimed she bought his house in Karen, a suburb of Nairobi bordering the Ngong Forest Reserve, for Sh100 million in cash.
As part of this land grab Elms was told by police and prosecutors he would be charged with forging his client’s will if he continued to try and sell the estate and divide it between Kenya Wildlife Service, the Kenya Forest Service and an education charity.