Forgery costs media mogul SK Macharia Sh6bn land battle against Uhuru’s cousin

Media tycoon SK Macharia has lost a multi-billion shilling land battle against President Uhuru Kenyatta’s cousin, Ngengi Muigai, after the National Land Commission (NLC) found that forged documents were used in a land transaction that took place 20 years ago. 

Mr Macharia, former Land PS JG Kibe and businessman Solomon Wilson Karanja used forged documents to illegally amalgamate a 94.8 acre piece of land with another measuring 4.7 acres before selling the property to Kenya Reinsurance Corporation (Kenya-Re) for Sh550 million in 1997, according to an August 4, 2016 ruling by the NLC tribunal.