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Woman tells court her regrets in buying a house she saw online for Ksh65M
19th January, 2026 10:58 PM
A Nairobi woman has tendered her evidence before a Milimani Court over a Lavington house she saw online being sold at Ksh65 million, only to regret it later.
Appearing before Principal Magistrate Rose Ndombi on Monday, January 19, 2026, Eunice Mbinya Musembi, who is the complainant in the case, told the court that after coming across the house, she got interested.
Mbinya told the court that the said house was four gates away from the house she was living in at that particular time.
Further, she told the court that her husband visited the property, and the manager gave him the seller’s contact information, who, according to the charge sheet, is Grace Kerubo Orioki, alias Grace Kerubo Omambia Omwega (trading as Nazziwa Investment Limited).
However, at that time she had travelled to Tanzania for business, but when she came back to Kenya, she invited Grace to her house, where they discussed and reached an agreement.
Structural flaws
Mbinya told the court that after Grace vacated the house in November 2024, she and her husband went to view it and realised there were interior and exterior cracks.
Notably, she said that they were barred from viewing the house until they completed paying the full house amount, but after back and forth, they were allowed to view it just for one hour under supervision.
“After she vacated through the advocate, they said even though she has vacated the house, we are still not allowed to view the house before the purchase price is complete,” Mbinya told the court.
The court heard that they were not comfortable with the structure of the house since they noticed major cracks, both interior and exterior, prompting them to seek a structural engineer’s intervention, whose report confirmed that the structural integrity of the house was compromised.
On November 25, 2025, Grace was charged before Milimani Chief Magistrate Dolphina Alego with obtaining money by false pretences under Section 313 of the Penal Code but denied the charges, and a plea of not guilty was entered.
According to the charge sheet, the accused, on diverse dates within the Republic of Kenya with intent to defraud, obtained a sum of Ksh65 million from Eunice Mbinya Musembi by deliberately concealing material structural defects in Lavington within Nairobi County.
The hearing will continue on March 5, 2026.
