A 55-year-old police constable has filed a case at the High Court in Eldoret seeking a stake in the multi-million shillings estate of his grandfather who died eight years ago.
Stanley Kibet Kogo, who is attached to Yamumbi police station in Kesses Sub County has sued his uncles, Emmanuel Kiptoo Lamai and Benjamin Kiptoo Lamai for discriminating him in the distribution of deceased Alfred Kaplamai Bor’s estate.
The respondents are joint administrators of their late father’s estate that is at the centre of the protracted inheritance dispute with their sister’s son.
They are represented in the succession matter by lawyers Nathan Tororei and Careen Chesoo while Kogo is represented by lawyer Richard Kamau.
In his court documents before the Presiding Judge Reuben Nyakundi, Kogo – a father of two- claims that his grandfather adopted him as one of his children when he was barely three days old.
This was after his mother; Irene Zippy Kalamai Bor abandoned him when she left to pursue her studies in nursing at the Kisii Medical Training College, never to return.
The deceased owned over 400 acres of prime land located along the Eldoret-Southern bypass road project, several plots in Eldoret town and its environs said to be valued at more than Ksh.600 million.
He also held several shares in Standard Chartered bank, Kenya breweries, Kenya Commercial bank Singoi holding limited, Wareng Sacco, motor vehicles, tractors livestock, wheat planters and two trails.
The late Bor left behind three widows and 14 children among them the Lands and Environment Court Judge Antonina Kossy Bor.
Kogo wants the High Court to compel his uncles to include him as a beneficiary in the vast estate of the deceased who passed away on October 20, 2017.
He argues that he was brought up by his late grandparents, Alfred Kaplamai Bor and Rosebella Jepkosgei Bor. It is his argument that when he was baptized on December 24, 1971 at St Joseph Seminary Eldoret, they witnessed the ceremony as his parents.
Justice Nyakundi is set to make a ruling on how the estate will be distributed among the beneficiaries on September 17, 2024.
