Couple accused of faking title deed

A man, his wife and two other people were yesterday charged with forging a title deed and fraudulently selling the land for Sh2.7 million.

David Wakario and his wife Pheris Gathoni were accused of forging the title deed for a five-acre parcel in Mweiga, Nyeri, before selling it to John Ndung'u in 2014.

The couple and their co-accused John Macharia and Henry Muigai appeared before Principal Magistrate Philip Wambua.

 The four were alleged to have deceived Ndung'u that the land belonged to Wakario who eventually sold the land for Sh500,000 per acre.

James Kingori, a land surveyor, told the magistrate that Ndung'u discovered he had been duped when a neighbour told them that the land  belonged to another person, not Wakario.

"We went to check in the lands office in Nyeri where we found that the title deed for the disputed land had been duplicated and Wakario's was a forged one," said Kingori.

-Peter Mburu