A Nairobi woman has told the court the anguish and suffering she is going through after she was sold a house with structural defects for a whooping Sh 65 million.
Eunice Mbinya Musembi told Principal Magistrate Rose Ndobi that she saw the house on the internet and became interested in buying it.
“The house was four gates from where we lived,” Ms Musembi testified.
She added that her husband visited the property and the manager gave him the seller’s contact information.
The witness told the court that at the time, she was in Tanzania for business but upon return, she invited the seller to her house where they discussed and reached an agreement.
When the accused person vacated the property in November 2024, Ms Musembi and her husband went to view it and realized there were interior and exterior cracks.
A structural engineer’s report confirmed that the structural integrity of the house was compromised.
Ms Musembi told the court that her children are suffering as they do not have a home yet she had paid over 60 million to buy them a home.
It was her testimony that upon noticing the said issues, the accused person and her lawyer became unreachable prompting her to report the matter to the Director of Criminal Investigations.
“Seeing my small children go homeless or people knocking because he have not paid rent and I’m supposed to have bought a house hit me hard as a mother,” she added
The court also heard that there is a dispute over the said property in the environment and lands court.
The accused person, Grace Kerubo Orioki alias Grace Kerubo Omambia Omwega is facing charges of defrauding Ms Musembi Sh 65 million by deliberately concealing material structural defects in Villa No. 3, Nasidai Villas, situated on L.R. No. 3734/1444, Kaputei Gardens, Lavington, Nairobi County, and falsely representing the said house to be in sound condition, thereby inducing the complainant to part with the aforesaid sum, a fact she knew to be false.
Orioki, (trading as Nazziwa Investment Limited) is alleged to have committed the offense on diverse dates within Kenya, with intent to defraud.
The hearing will proceed on 5th March 2026.
