Police have been allowed to detain for 10 days two senior land officers, a police officer, a hotelier and land brokers involved in fake title deals.
Milimani senior principal magistrate Rose Ndombi said the prosecution has proved that police need more time to get to the bottom of the matter since large quantities of fake title deeds are out there,
“I find that the prosecution have established that there is ample evidence to warrant the detention of the suspects,” the magistrate ruled.
The order follows an application by the DPP to allow police to detain the suspects at Muthaiga and Kileleshwa police stations to enable officers from the land fraud department of the DCI to complete Investigations in a fake land title scam.
Those detained by Milimani law courts senior principal magistrate Rose Ndombi are Dan Odero Okoth,Emmanuel Mutuku Matheka, Nicholas Mukuna Muyela,Livingstone Ambayi Munala,Kennedy Mulatya,Paul Mungai Kimani and Leonard Clifford Wafula.
Lands officials-Okoth and Matheka and Administration police officer-Leonard Clifford Wafula are accused of stealing government stores which are allegedly used to print fake title documents.
The magistrate heard that the lands officers and the police officer allegedly steal headed government papers which they hand over to land brokers to print fake land title documents which they pass on to unsuspecting persons as proof of genuine land ownership documents.
“The suspects are allegedly involved forgeries of some state department of Lands and Physical Planning under the Ministry of lands, Public Works, Housing and Urban Developments documents which includes , letters of allotments, deed plans, certificates of titles, certificates of leases, transfer of land documents, indentures among others,”Ms Ndombi was told by the prosecution.
She heard that Okoth and Matheka, are employees of the state department for Lands and Physical Planning, Survey of Kenya.
The two, Ms Ndombi, was informed are working in cahoots with “rogue land brokers to conduct land fraud at the state department for lands and physical planning.
“The duo allegedly supply blank lands documents, facilitate stealing of files from strong rooms, share contents of physical files and facilitate filing of forgeries into manual registries,” Ms Ndombi was informed by a state prosecutor at the Milimani law courts on Tuesday (April 1,2025).
Both Okoth and Matheka are said to be working with their associate Livingstone Munala, a suspected document forgerer.
Ms Ndombi further heard Muyela, is an alleged land broker and works in cahoots with Okoth and Matheka.
Muyela who operates a hotel within the prescints of Survey of Kenya, allegedly facilitates the availing of contents of physical files and filing of forgeries through Matheka.
He also shares information with Okoth who eventually liases with documents forgers.
“Our intelligence has established he (muyela) resides in Dandora, Nairobi County,” the investigating officer Nicolaus Osuri discloses in the evidence availed to the court.
Munala, who operates four mobile phones has allegedly been helping land brokers to source and print counterfeit land sheets, which are later ingested into the Lands Ministry’s digital and manual registries, thus defrauding genuine land owners.
“Munala is working with other unidentified individuals, who forge lands official’s signatures, registrar stamps and backdates the documents to appear genuine,” the prosecutor stated while urging the court to remand the suspects for 14 days.
The court heard Munala is a freelance operator who does not have a specific office within Ngara area within Starehe sub-county where as he resides at Obama estate along Kangundo Road.
Ms Ndombi heard Mulatya allegedly helps rogue land brokers to print counterfeit lands documents which are later ingested into the lands ministry’s digital and manual registries.
