Ailing widow battles national bank for frozen Sh18 million

Magdalene Muthoni attends to Hannah Wanjiku at her home in Harambee Estate, Nairobi. [Maxwell Agwanda, Standard]

An 85-year-old widow is fighting to access her bank account holding over Sh18 million after it was illegally frozen over a controversial land transaction.

Hannah Wanjiku claims that the National Bank of Kenya is holding the money from the sale of her 5-acre land in Karen despite two court orders that she access her money after the judges found that she was the legal land owner and had a right to sell it to anyone she wished.