Late Kenya Vice President Kijana Wamalwa's Children Fight for Multi-Million-Shilling Estate Left Behind by their Dad

Children of the late former Kenya Vice President Michael Kijana Wamalwa are fighting for the multi-million-shilling estate left behind by their dad.

So serious is the tussle that Wamalwa's last born daughter with the late wife, Yvonne has been forced out of school.

Michelle Nafuna Wamalwa, 18, says she has been living at the mercy of well-wishers and friends.

“The death of both my parents has rendered me an orphan…I have been out of school for almost one year since my late mother passed away, as I am yet to be provided my beneficial share in my late parents' estates,” she says in a court document.

She says she has not been able to resume her studies at Gems Cambridge International Schools. Her uncle, Devolution Cabinet Secretary Eugene Wamalwa promised to secure her a scholarship but this has not happened.

“Uncle Eugene (Devolution CS Eugene Wamalwa) told me I should prepare to leave for Australia on a government scholarship. That was on March 13, 2018. I was only left with two weeks to graduate from high school. Since that time I have been waiting,” she told the Star.

Nafula and her elder brother Duke Mboya claim their uncle (Eugene) is among those fighting for their father's property.

Their step-sister Alice Muthoni Wamalwa filed a case in court, which issued an injunction blocking their late father’s pension from being processed.

Duke accuses Muthoni of leasing the politician's eight acres in Kitale and another 40 acres in Saboti to her relatives. She is also accused of selling trees belonging to the Wamalwa estate and which are worth millions of shillings, at a loss.

In her case, Muthoni argues that Duke should not be a beneficiary of the estate because he is the son of Luki Mboya. Duke was an adopted son of Wamalwa.

Duke and Nafula say their mother (Yvonne) was broke at the time of her death and would probably still be alive if she had access to some of her husband's wealth, including the health insurance

At the heart of the row is a house in Karen that was partly paid for by the Kenyan government after Wamalwa’s death.

Others include two apartments at Akila I Estate, along Mbagathi Road in Nairobi, 40 acres in Trans Nzoia and 3.8-acre parcel in Milimani, Kitale among others.

Wamalwa passed away in 2003 without a will. On September 2003, Yvonne applied and was granted letters of administration but in 2005, the grant was rectified to include Muthoni as a co-administrator.

Duke and Nafula accuse their step sister of planning to remove their late mother and themselves from managing their dad’s property, just six months after the death of Yvonne Wamalwa.

“The people who fighting against us are extremely influential and respected, they are on TV every day with the President or the Deputy President” says Duke