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Loice Kibor, one of the late Uasin Gishu tycoon, Jackson Kibor’s 27 children explains the financial strain they are going through after they were denied access to rental income from the deceased commercial buildings in Eldoret town by their embattled step mother Eunita Kibor.

“Our stepmother has been collecting more than Sh100 million rent from our late father’s buildings in Eldoret town without involving other family members. She has been a stumbling block ever since she came into our family,” argued Loice.

According to Loice, Eunita got married when their late father had already acquired the multi-billion shillings wealth and that she cannot seek to control the entire estate to the detriment of other family members.

“My mother is ailing and we have to borrow money to take her to hospital and yet our late father left millions of shillings in his several bank accounts which are being controlled by his youngest wife,” complained Loice

But Eunita maintains that she is entitled to a share of her late husband’s estate and asked her step children to respect her rights instead of going against what the deceased bequeathed her when he was alive.

Distribution process

“What I own was given to me by my late husband for the interest of our four children and my stepchildren. He has no right to interfere with the process of distribution,” she averred.

Eunita further warned her step children led Loiice for courting a curse for disrespecting her noting that there have been attempts to disinherit her of her share of the estate that was left behind by the deceased.

The succession case took a dramatic twist three months ago after the Presiding Judge Reuben Nyakundi recused himself from the case.

This was after the late tycoon’s children accused him of being biased in the manner he has been handling the succession case since he took over the case three years ago.

They asked the Judge to recuse himself from the case in the letter signed by the deceased’s children among them the eldest son Philip Kibor, daughters Magdalene and Betty Kibor. It was copied to Chief Justice Marthan Koome, the Judicial Service Commission, the Registrar of the High Court in Eldoret, Kenya National Commission on Human Rights the Law Society of Kenya and the Eldoret High Court

Justice Nyakundi has since transferred the Sh16 billion succession case to the court’s newly appointed Judge Emily Ominde.

Justice Ominde is expected to set a new date for hearing the succession case afresh as demanded by the deceased’s children.