Man wants two locked out of father's Sh200m property

A succession battle for a Sh200 million estate turned ugly after the son to one of the three women claiming ownership of the property filed a case to exclude two of them from inheriting his father's estate.

Allan Onyango, the petitioner, wants two women claiming to be widows of Eliakim Olweny, a former land surveyor and Director General of Evans Sunrise Hospital, locked out of his multi-million shilling estate.

In an application he filed before Justice Teresia Matheka, Mr Onyango claims the two women - Norah Atieno and Anne Wanjiru - were never married to his father.

Ms Atieno and Ms Wanjiru are objectors in the case filed by Olweny’s legal wife Phelisia Akoth and her other two sons Edwin Otieno and Timothy Ochieng'. Akoth and her sons want to be granted letters of administration of Olweny’s estate.

Onyango, who entered the case as an interested party, claims Atieno and Wanjiru are misleading court to benefit from property they are not entitled to.

Onyango avers that Atieno’s claim that she married Olweny is false due to the fact that she had a subsisting marriage to George Odhiambo while Wanjiru was married to Ben Kabogo, hence could not have been legally married to his father.

In addition, Onyango claims in an application dated August 2014, Wanjiru, who had sued Olweny over some property, presented herself as the deceased’s mistress and not his wife.

Onyango wants the High Court to declare that Olweny was only legally married to Akoth in a monogamous Christian marriage in 1966.

His application will be heard on May 27, 28 and June 23.