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Battle for the estate of a deceased AIC church cleric Edward Limo in Uasin Gishu County has taken a new twist after a man filed a petition in court claiming a stake in the wealth.

John Macharia claims that he was a partner with the deceased in one of the high-end private learning institutions constructed on a section of his vast land  located on the outskirts of Eldoret town and that he deserves a share of the estate.

Macharia now wants the administrators of the late Limo’s estate to compensate him Sh100 million for the investment he put in the construction of Concord Boys School twenty years ago.

He has also proposed that the administrators hive off eight acres for him from the land set aside for the school measuring 18 acres if they cannot give him the amount demanded as compensation.

Prominent personality

Limo who was a prominent personality and close friend to the former President the late Daniel Moi died on December 13, 2017 at an Eldoret hospital while receiving treatment.

His estate estimated to be worth more than Sh3 billion includes African Inland Church (AIC), Kao la Amani Church and Kao la Amani college.

The more than 1,000 acre parcel of land which he owned hosts a private hospital, a dairy cows project, maize and wheat crops, Concord Boys and Concord Girls Secondary schools among other assets.

Through his lawyer Rioba Omboto, Macharia told Eldoret High Court Presiding Judge Reuben Nyakundi (pictured) that he entered into an agreement with the late Limo to construct Concord Boys School on an 18 acre parcel of land over three decades ago.

The land on which the school currently stands is part of the deceased’s more than 1,000 acre property among other movable and immovable assets that are at the centre of a legal succession case in the court.  “I and the late Limo entered into partnership where it was agreed that he was to alienate 18 acres of land for the school and I was to source for funds towards construction of the school premises. I was never an employee of Edward Limo as asserted by one his sons, Benjamin Limo, “he told the court.

This was after he resigned from the Teachers Service Commission where he was a teacher at Musa Gitau High School in Murang’a County six years ago.

Macharia claimed to have injected Sh50 million as capital in the construction of the school which has assets that include a school bus, van and laboratory equipment.