The saga that has seen Cabinet Secretary Florence Bore and Gatanga MP Edward Muriu tussle over a KSh120 million palatial house in Karen, Nairobi, has taken a fresh twist after the CS broke her silence.
CS Bore says that the drama witnessed on Friday, June 16 came as a surprise to her, since she had entered into an agreement to purchase the property.
The deal, she says, would see her occupy the house after paying a certain amount of the total price of the house.
“In compliance with the respective clauses of the agreement, I sourced a 10% deposit from my Sacco and paid directly to the vendor’s lawyer’s account via RTGS… We agreed that I take occupation of the house while a retreated to seek a mortgage facility for the balance, which I legitimately expected to obtain within the agreed transaction period of 90 days,” CS Bore says in a statement.
It is for this reason that Bore says she was astounded by the events, less than 30 days of the agreement. She now accuses MP Muriu and his wife of attempting to evict her children from the house while she is out of the country.
“Unfortunately, in an astounding weave of events, in less than 30 days of the agreement, Hon Edward Muriu and his Wife attempted to unlawfully evict my children from the house while I was out of the Country. They were accompanied by armed goons necessitating the need for police presence in the premises. For a colleague in leadership to take advantage of my absence from the country to run a hate campaign instead of waiting to engage me upon return is not only queer but baffling. The dramatized and sensational allegations are fabricated to unlawfully dissociate from the agreement ostensibly because they have found a “better deal”,” CS Bore added.
“The transaction was a private engagement between a willing seller and a willing buyer, both parties duly represented by lawyers in total conformity with the law. The media pitch was therefore unwarranted and ancillary to the transaction.”
