Late Kenya Vice President Kijana Wamalwa's Children Fight for Multi-Million-Shilling Estate Left Behind by their Dad

Children of the late former Kenya Vice President Michael Kijana Wamalwa are fighting for the multi-million-shilling estate left behind by their dad.

So serious is the tussle that Wamalwa's last born daughter with the late wife, Yvonne has been forced out of school.

Michelle Nafuna Wamalwa, 18, says she has been living at the mercy of well-wishers and friends.

“The death of both my parents has rendered me an orphan…I have been out of school for almost one year since my late mother passed away, as I am yet to be provided my beneficial share in my late parents' estates,” she says in a court document.

She says she has not been able to resume her studies at Gems Cambridge International Schools. Her uncle, Devolution Cabinet Secretary Eugene Wamalwa promised to secure her a scholarship but this has not happened.

“Uncle Eugene (Devolution CS Eugene Wamalwa) told me I should prepare to leave for Australia on a government scholarship. That was on March 13, 2018. I was only left with two weeks to graduate from high school. Since that time I have been waiting,” she told the Star.

Nafula and her elder brother Duke Mboya claim their uncle (Eugene) is among those fighting for their father's property.

Their step-sister Alice Muthoni Wamalwa filed a case in court, which issued an injunction blocking their late father’s pension from being processed.

Duke accuses Muthoni of leasing the politician's eight acres in Kitale and another 40 acres in Saboti to her relatives. She is also accused of selling trees belonging to the Wamalwa estate and which are worth millions of shillings, at a loss.

In her case, Muthoni argues that Duke should not be a beneficiary of the estate because he is the son of Luki Mboya. Duke was an adopted son of Wamalwa.

Duke and Nafula say their mother (Yvonne) was broke at the time of her death and would probably still be alive if she had access to some of her husband's wealth, including the health insurance

At the heart of the row is a house in Karen that was partly paid for by the Kenyan government after Wamalwa’s death.

Others include two apartments at Akila I Estate, along Mbagathi Road in Nairobi, 40 acres in Trans Nzoia and 3.8-acre parcel in Milimani, Kitale among others.

Wamalwa passed away in 2003 without a will. On September 2003, Yvonne applied and was granted letters of administration but in 2005, the grant was rectified to include Muthoni as a co-administrator.

Duke and Nafula accuse their step sister of planning to remove their late mother and themselves from managing their dad’s property, just six months after the death of Yvonne Wamalwa.

“The people who fighting against us are extremely influential and respected, they are on TV every day with the President or the Deputy President” says Duke

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Gems Cambridge International…

Kenya (not verified) Sat, 01/26/2019 @ 09:06pm

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Gems Cambridge International Schools is a very expensive school that charges over a million per semester. Why can't you go to Kenya Public schools instead of being out of school for one year. Eugene Wamalwa and Uhuru this is family help them to solve this family feud kinyumbani using handshake method. Muthoni is a granddaughter of expired Kamau cousin.

I have always said Kenya…

GG (not verified) Sun, 01/27/2019 @ 01:03am

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I have always said Kenya should make it mandatory that every person that has some property must have a written WILL. Muthoni is intermeddling with the deceased property and fails to realize that according to the constitution, adopted children in Kenya entitled to equal inheritance. The law recognizes that an entitled inheritance dependent is any child: 1. Born out of wedlock.2.
Related to either the father or mother and has lived in the home.3.
Expressly recognized or in fact accepted as a child of and either parent has voluntarily assumed permanent responsibility.

Eugene Wamalwa is said to be…

BaaniBayayi (not verified) Sun, 01/27/2019 @ 09:24am

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Eugene Wamalwa is said to be Kijana Wamalwa's son; literally. Hard to believe (but that's what people "in the know" say). No wonder (it should be No Surprise) he is One of the Claimants (of the Multi-Million Shilling Estate).

https://www.the-star.co.ke…

BaaniBayayi (not verified) Mon, 01/28/2019 @ 06:00am

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https://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2019/01/28/our-lives-are-in-danger-wama…

Ni muhimu kwa mtu yeyote…

Imara Daima (not verified) Sat, 01/26/2019 @ 09:56pm

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Ni muhimu kwa mtu yeyote aliye na watoto kuandika USIA (will) kama yungali hai. Mara kwa mara ugomvi mwingi hutokea wakati wa kugawana mali ya mtu aliyekufa.

Jambo hili ni muhimu sana kufanywa wakati hali ya afya ingali nzuri na akili ingali timamu.

Ushaandika USIA (United…

BaaniBayayi (not verified) Sun, 01/27/2019 @ 09:28am

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Ushaandika USIA (United States in America) yako? Ama ni domo tu kama kawaida?😕

Fight on Kijana's (and in…

One2ManyDayz (not verified) Sat, 01/26/2019 @ 11:57pm

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Fight on Kijana's (and in public) for if the people you fight against are influential, they only understand public domain otherwise in family kamukunjis they will swindle you big time. Some will send you majuu on purpose so that they can reap where the never sowed. The greatest sin is to fail to fight for your rights and belief, the greater sin is to fail to fight for what is yours and the great sin is to fail to fight for your inheritance. Fight on and the gods and universe will conspire to deliver what is rightfully yours.(disclaimer: this is not professional advise but a pedestrian's ramblings)

African men...get your ducks…

Mauwa (not verified) Sat, 01/26/2019 @ 11:59pm

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African men...get your ducks in a row. Most behave wildly in their youth, fathering kids left right and center by different women without proper procedures, ensuring a future of acrimony. Muthoni is now flexing her muscle, she who never cared to be with daddy in his last years. She now wants to jettison Mboya who was adopted after Yvonne brought some direction in Wamalwa's life. Wamalwa was a celebrated lawyer but what vision did be have for his family or kids? Just fuck, burst a nut, and let the kids grow like birds is the strategy my brothers? Do you see this family uniting at all?

And this my friends is partly why we in Africa can never build generational wealth. A good chunk of the inheritance will be gobbled up by lawyers,the rest split ten different ways making each division economically non-viable.

I am having this discussion with my father who is also an African man: kids by several women. One brother; a college drop out and a dead-beat thinks part of the property should be sold off because in his view, it is fallow.

Brothers, life is life. You will have kids by different women. Women will have kids after yours or you will marry some with kids. Please, get your ducks in a row to be sure your kids go on long after you have gone. I know that Kenyan lawyers are a crappy lot: they will squander instead of overseeing. Maybe we should invite outsiders to manage inherited wealth.

Just saying.