Barclays Bank denies role in selling Karen land to city tycoon

Barclays Bank has denied any involvement in the alleged illicit transfer of a 134-acre piece of land in Karen. The lender, in its court documents, claimed it never had any contract with John Mugo, but instead it oversaw the transfer of the 134-acre land from the original owner Arnold Bradley to Horatius Da Gama Rose.

Barclays Director of legal services Waweru Mathenge in his testimony before High Court Judge Lucy Nyambura said the lender had also held the title of the land as a charge of a loan taken by Mr Rose between 1983 and 1989 when it released a certificate of discharge after he completed servicing it.