Charles Wanjohi Chomba alias Wathuku seized a chance to be a billionaire heir when he discovered that a wealthy businessman had passed on without leaving behind next of kin.
The late Wathuku Ngure died childless and without a spouse, leaving his vast wealth lying idle with no one to claim inheritance.
Charles Wanjohi saw an opportunity to be a billionaire heir and he took it. He forged personal registration documents in a bid to inherit a Ksh 2 billion estate of the late Ngure.
Wanjohi was arrested after it was determined that he forged a birth certificate and identification card while posing as the son of the late Ngure.
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The suspect was on Wednesday November 11th charged with seven counts before senior resident magistrate Nelly Kariuki.
The Nyeri court heard that on November 20, 2006 at the Civil Registration office in Nyeri, Wanjohi lied that he was born on December 6, 1968, which he knew to be false.
The suspect’s seven counts include;Â making a false statement for insertion in the registers of birth, lying to a public service officer, obtaining registration by false pretence, obtaining registration by false pretence, writing a false affidavit dated December 28, 1992 written by the late Ngure and claiming it was genuine, conspiracy to defraud and forging the deceased’s testamentary documents.
Before he was arrested, the accused had sold late Ngure’s plot of land in 2003. He procured payment of the plot of land for Ksh 16 million by using letters of administration that he was issued after submitting the false affidavit dated 1992.
Wanjohi was intending to swindle late Ngure’s estate, which consisted of plots of land in Kiganjo, Muhito and Mbuine all valued at Ksh 2 billion.
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