Kirima son dies in road crash after family row

By CYRUS OMBATI

A son of the late Nairobi businessman Gerishon Kirima was Friday morning killed in a road crash on Waiyaki Way in Westlands.

Sammy Kirima died sometime between 1am and 2am when a Toyota Hilux he was driving was struck by a lorry and thrown off the road. Police have towed the damaged vehicles to the Parklands Police Station and are investigating the apparent accident.

Kirima was on his way from a confrontation with family members in Embakasi that started Thursday and ran late into the night. Some of Kirima’s other children were trying to evict Sammy's mother from property in Pipeline area left behind by his father.. The children arrived in lorries with armed police in a bid to evict the step-mother Teresia Wairimu, who is Sammy's mother.

Teresiah  Kirima, wife of the late Gerishon Kirima addressing the media at their Kitisuru residence. [Photo: File/Standard]

They found Teresia in the company of a group of youths and armed with documents showing the property in controversy belongs to her.

“I am one of the owners of the property in question and what they are trying to do is wrong and uncalled for,” said Teresia on the phone.

She added she is registered as one of the owners of the multi million flats in the area. The children wanted to take over management of the houses numbering about 200.

Police turned back after they were shown the documents showing Teresia is one of the owners. The family has been embroiled in a tussle over property which is estimated to be more than Sh750 million with rent collected monthly at nearly Sh20 million. Mr Kirima died last December in South Africa after a long illness. Efforts to reconcile the feuding children have failed.

None of Wairimu's step-daughters agreed to comment on the latest saga.