A 59-year-old woman was on Friday arraigned before a Nairobi court over allegations of engaging in forgery, in regard to property of a deceased man who died in 2013.
The court heard that Margaret Wangari Kamande falsified documents and took over the property belonging to Johnson Mirigu Kagondu and proceeded to demand rent.
In the fake documents, allegedly prepared by a city lawyer, the accused who was arraigned at the Milimani Law Courts claims that she acquired the property in 2007.
The property in question is located in Nairobi's Umoja Estate
The fake sale agreement between the woman and Kagondu who died in the US was, according to her, prepared by lawyer Julius Ndichu Kihanya.
In 2014, Kagondu's son Lenny Gitau, discovered that the accused was demanding rent from his father's tenants, after which he sought help from the Dandora Housing Development which sold his father the property in 1976.
The court also heard that the accused has been purporting to be a widow of the deceased, and was also charged with intermeddling with the property without succession rights.
She said that a succession case is pending before a Murang'a court, and was released on Sh300,000 cash bail or Sh500,000 bond.