MP's daughter wants brother, stepmothers removed as Sh1b estate administrators
Courts
By
Daniel Chege
| Nov 08, 2025
A daughter of former nominated MP Phillip Kamau has applied to oust her brother and her three stepmothers for her father’s estate management.
Elizabeth Wanjiku wants Justice Samwel Mohochi to revoke the grant of letters of administration issued to her brother Joseph Njuguna and her stepmother, Teresia Njeri and Margaret Damat, and Lucy Wanjiru.
The four have been the administrators of the estate estimated to be worth over Sh1 billion since September 29, 2023.
However, Wanjiku states that the four have failed to manage the estate diligently as mandated by the law.
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“Failure to diligently administer the estate is a ground for their removal,” she submits.
She submits that they only obtained the grant to fraudulently prevent her from timely prosecuting the succession case.
She deposes that they are in breach of the duty of legal representatives that mandates them to be impartial and diligent and avoid dishonesty.
“Their actions show that all of them are untrustworthy and are not fit to continue any longer,” she avers.
According to Wanjiku, once appointed as administrators, the four had allegedly colluded to delay the succession case that had been in court since Kamau died in 2012.
She adds that they had refused to perform the duties of prosecuting the succession case and had refused to take up the roles as administrators.
Wanjiku submits that as per her father’s will, the four are the major beneficiaries and they get an advantage when the case is delayed, because they control the majority of the estate.
In contrast, however, despite refusing to take up roles as administrators, Wanjiku notes that the four still used the same in an attempt to be enjoined in a land dispute pitting her and Wanjiru.
Wanjiku alleged that the four know that some of the key witnesses in the case are old people and may soon be withdrawn from testifying or even die before the case concludes.
She pointed out that two years had passed since they took over the administration from former executor Lawyer Juma Kiplenge (deceased), without making any progress on estate distribution.
Further, she claims that the four had halted the administration of the estate of her late mother, Alice Kahaki, Kamau’s first wife, who died in 1983.
“The object of the four respondents is to prevent the said estate from receiving any assets for distribution,” she laments.
She wants the court to revoke the grant issued to the four and instead temporarily issue it to the public trustee or one of the beneficiaries until the case is determined.
Wanjiku has been fighting her family in a bid to separate her mother’s estate from her father’s.
She claims that her late mother owned 95 percent of the estate, but her late father disinherited her and her children, awarding his estate to the other widows.
Kamau died on May 12, 2012, with a will, leaving the majority of his estate to his widows and son.
The property includes the famous Pinkam House and Molo House in Nakuru City, a slaughterhouse, a funeral home, prime plots, residential homes, shops, land, enterprises, motor vehicles, and savings in banks.
Other assets are shares in Mwariki Farm Limited, Kiamunyi Farm Limited, Embakasi Ranching Limited, and Mangu Enterprise Limited.
The case will be mentioned on November 17.