Sammy Silas Komen Mwaita
Former Lands Commissioner and ex-Baringo Central MP Sammy Silas Komen Mwaita has been charged with multiple counts of land fraud amounting to Sh 150M.
He appeared before Magistrate Benmark Ekhubi on August 4, 2025, and denied all counts.
He had tried to oppose plea taking, but the court confirmed that there was no order stopping his prosecution from a higher court.
Accompanied by a group of his supporters, including his lawyers and personal assistant, Mwaita appeared calm as charges were read out loud to him.
Mwaita was charged with unlawfully creating two title deeds with the intent to defraud the rightful owners of two prime parcels of land.
The prosecution told the court Mwaita and his co-accused, Brian Kiptoo Kiplangat, conspired on or before March 30, 2001, to fraudulently generate title documents for Grant Title Land Reference No. 209/9968 IR No. 85847 without legal authority.
The forged documents were intended to defraud Rose Njoki King’au of land designated as Plot No. “A”.
The prosecution further revealed that Mwaita, while serving in public office, fraudulently registered both Plot “A” and an adjacent parcel identified as Plot “B”, without the consent or knowledge of their respective owners, Rose Njoki King’au and Micugu Wagatharia, an act that constituted abuse of office.
He was released on a Sh 2 million cash bail or a bond of Sh 10M.
His co-accused, Brian Kiptoo Kiplangat, is expected to plead to charges on August 5, 2025, at the same court.
