PREMIUM How a Kenyatta-era PC vanished from an Sh8bn Karen land deal In March 2025, the Environment and Land Court concluded that none of the claimants had acquired the property lawfully. News 9 hours ago Listen
The dispute has drawn in the estate of Arnold Bradley, a colonial settler, Barclays Bank, the influential Da Gama Rose family, Mburu’s widow, former NSSF managing trustee Jos Konzolo and several companies holding competing titles to the same land.
In a landmark verdict delivered on July 31, 2026, the Court of Appeal declared that the land belongs to Muchanga, a company whose directors included the late Nairobi lawyer Horatius Da Gama Rose, former Vice-President Moody Awori and Awori’s wife, Ruth.
The records indicate that in December 1977, Barclays, through Kaplan & Stratton Advocates, entered into an agreement to sell the Karen property and Francis Da Gama Rose & Company acted for the purchaser.
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