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A son of the late former Cabinet Minister John Joseph Kamotho was yesterday charged before Milimani Law Courts with forgery  of a medical report in order to disinherit his siblings of their late father’s multi-million shilling estate.

Charles Githii Kamotho (right) appeared before Chief Magistrate Wendy Kagendo and denied the criminal charges levelled against him by the Office of Director of Public Prosecutions.

He denied forging a doctor’s report stating that his sister Marianne Nyokabi Kamotho was of unsound mind hence not fit to administer his father’s estate.

“On October 12, 2015 at an unknown place within the Republic of Kenya with intent to defraud, forged a medical report for Marianne Nyokabi Kamotho purporting it to be a genuine medical report made and signed by Dr. Mucheru Wangombe,” reads the charge sheet in part.

In the second count, Gathii is charged with presenting the forged medical report at the Deputy Registrar of Milimani High Court in a succession matter number 108 of 2017 where the family seeks the court’s intervention on how the Sh260 million estate should be distributed.

He answered to the charges after the court dismissed his prayer to differ the plea taking to enable him resolve the matter out of court.

Gathii applied for reasonable cash bail saying the matter is of civil nature and no cash or property has been lost.

The magistrate granted him a Sh300,000 bond or a cash bail of Sh150,000. The case will be mentioned on December 22 for pretrial.

The arraignment and prosecution of Gathii comes after the DCI forensic unit established that the letter by the doctor was forged.

Kamotho died on December 6, 2014, and is survived by his wife Eunice Kamotho and four children — Charles Gathii, James Mwai, Marianne Nyokabi and David Waweru. Gathii and Mwai, are agreeable to their mother being the administrator of the estate but Nyokabi and Waweru have objected.

Eunice has since accused Nyokabi and Waweru of hatching a plot to deny her a chance to administer the estate.

But the two say they want independent administrators to manage their late father’s wealth.

Justice Stephen Riechi has since directed the case to be mentioned on February 20, 2023 for further directions on the distribution of the estate after parties have failed to reach an agreement on how the estate should be distributed.

Before then, the judge has ordered the family to prepare their mode of distribution and have the same produced in court.

It is said before his death, Kamotho had a Will detailing how his estate was to be shared but he died without signing it.