A 55-year-old police constable has filed a case in the High Court in Eldoret, seeking a share of the multi-million shilling estate of his grandfather, who passed away eight years ago.
Stanley Kibet Kogo, stationed at Yamumbi police station in Kesses Sub County, is suing his uncles, Emmanuel Kiptoo Lamai and Benjamin Kiptoo Lamai, for excluding him from the distribution of the estate of the late Alfred Kaplamai Bor.
The uncles are joint administrators of their father’s estate, which is at the center of a prolonged inheritance dispute involving their sister’s son. They are represented by lawyers Nathan Tororei and Careen Chesoo, while Kogo is represented by lawyer Richard Kamau.
In court documents submitted to Presiding Judge Reuben Nyakundi, Kogo, a father of two, claims that his grandfather adopted him when he was just three days old after his mother, Irene Zippy Kalamai Bor, abandoned him to pursue her nursing studies at Kisii Medical Training College, never to return.
The deceased owned over 400 acres of prime land along the Eldoret-Southern bypass project, several plots in Eldoret town, and surrounding areas, valued at more than Ksh. 600 million. He also held shares in Standard Chartered Bank, Kenya Breweries, Kenya Commercial Bank, Singoi Holding Limited, Wareng Sacco, as well as motor vehicles, tractors, livestock, and wheat planters.
Alfred Kaplamai Bor left behind three widows and 14 children, including Lands and Environment Court Judge Antonina Kossy Bor. Kogo is requesting that the High Court compel his uncles to recognize him as a beneficiary of his grandfather’s estate, which he claims was his upbringing. He argues that his grandparents, Alfred and Rosebella Jepkosgei Bor, acted as his parents during his baptism on December 24, 1971, at St. Joseph Seminary in Eldoret.
Justice Nyakundi is expected to rule on the distribution of the estate among the beneficiaries on September 17, 2024.
