A businessman has been charged at a Nairobi court with forgery of documents to defraud a land valued at Sh 11 billion.
Jeremiah Mutisya Paul appeared before the Milimani senior principal magistrate Robinson Ondieki facing two counts of forgery and obtaining registration by pretenses.
The prosecution told the court that at an unknown place and time within the republic of Kenya, Mutisya jointly with others who were not before the court intended to defraud Drumvale Farmers Cooperative Society of their parcel of land IR 20982 LR 8529/1 made a false lease certificate IR 204303 LR 8529/7.
Mutisya purportedly pretended it to be a genuine certificate of lease document issued by the registrar of titles a fact he knew to be false.
The said land measuring 452 hectares is situated at Mavoko sub-county within Machakos county and is the property of Drumvale Farmers Cooperative Society valued at Sh 11 billion.
In the second count, he faced the charges of obtaining registration by pretenses contrary to the law.
The court heard that at an unknown time and place within the country with others who were not before the court willfully procured for himself a certificate of a lease for a parcel of land No. 204303 LR 8529/7 original number 8529/1 pretending it to be genuine a fact he knew to be false.
The prosecution did not oppose his release on bond but requested the court to consider the value of the property and give stringent terms.
The lawyer requested the accused to be released on lenient terms citing that bond terms are constitutional rights with the aim of the accused to appear before court,
“Your honor I plead with this court to consider my client and release him on lenient bond terms,” pleaded the defense lawyer.
Mr Ondieki released him on a bond of Sh 1 million or alternative cash bail of Sh 600,000.
The matter will be mentioned in two weeks.