NAIROBI, Kenya June 18 – Water Cabinet Secretary Alice Wahome has dismissed social media reports that she is the official at the centre of a scandal involving a multi-million palatial home in Karen.
Wahome tweeted Saturday after her name featured prominently on social media that she is the one who has forcibly occupied a private property at Amara Ridge and thrown out the owners despite having not paid for it.
“That story of a house in Karen involving a CS, leave me out. I m not the one. Sorry, Kenyans on Twitter. You missed this one,” she tweeted.
Wahome was linked to the house on social media after reports that a CS had forcefully occupied the house belonging to Gatanga MP Edward Muriu, who is selling it.
The unnamed CS is reported to have expressed interest to buy the property at Sh90 million but was told it can only go for Sh120 million but she went ahead to occupy the empty house when the owners were away.
Florence Bore, the Labour CS has since confirmed that she is the one occupying the house but denies reports she took it forcefully.
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And when the owners sent in a contractor to renovate it, he was ejected by armed police officers attached to the CSs house.
“As far as we are concerned, this is our house and we have not sold it to the CS because we still have all the documents and she has not matched the offer,” said Mary Mureu, the property owner.
She said the CS occupied the house when the family had traveled to the US for the graduation of their daughter.
She did not, however, name the CS until Sunday when Bore issued a statement.
