Even before the dramatic Ekeza Sacco and Gakuyo Real Estate scandal can cool down, rumours have started to fly on social media of what looks like another brewing scandal involving another renowned real estate firm.
Urithi Housing Co-operative Society which claims to provide affordable quality housing and land at subsidized prices is on the spot over allegations of selling 'grabbed land' to unsuspecting buyers who then 'get into trouble when they decide to put up houses'.
The allegation that saw Urithi trending on Twitter for the good part of last Saturday, came to the limelight after controversial blogger, C. Nyakundi, 'exposed' earlier the same day what he termed as a 'complaint that borders a scam' from an unidentified Urithi member.
Some tweeps who claimed to be Urithi members would thereafter come out gun-blazing to confirm the allegations.
One tweep, Anthony Njihia in a series of tweets aired his frustration with Urithi.
The Sacco whose slogan is ‘Buy and wait. Don’t wait and buy’, has, however, through its official Twitter handle came out to deny the allegations as 'false, malicious and ill-advised'.
"#BeAdvised. The current information on social media regarding the state of one of our housing schemes is false, malicious and ill [-] advised . The project is fully under construction. Members are requested to liaise with the office for enquiries and any clarifications. Thank you," read the tweet.
Ekeza/Gakuyo scandals had coincidentally started the same way in early 2017 after which the man at the centre of the fraud, Bishop David Ngari, went on a paid media offensive to deny the then reports that Ekeza Sacco had gone insolvent and was near collapse.
Gakuyo advised members to ignore the rumours while assuring them that all their savings were safe and sound.
Two years later (February 21, 2019), an audit report conducted on the Sacco, would, however, show that the rogue bishop had transferred over Sh1.5 billion belonging to members to his personal account.