BY INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER.

POLICE in Rachuonyo district are following crucial leads that is likely to see the immediate former Kasipul Kabondo MP Paddy Ahenda charged with fraudulently acquiring land and tranfering its tittle to his name.

The detectives have since recorded statements with the former Rachuonyo District Land registrar who the former MP allegedly forged her signatures which purportedly transferred the ownership of the said parcel to Ahenda in the year 1999.

The officers began probing the land deal after the family of the late Alphones Osika of Kabondo reported that the former legislator had falsified documents after colluding with the land officials in the district to throw them out of their ancestral land.

At the time,the politician had fenced off the parcel registered as Kabondo/Kakang’utu land no.1028 effectively making the Osika family squatters in their own homestead.

In the documents that this journalist saw which is linked to the probe, Ahenda claims to have bought the parcel from the late Osika but it is interesting to not that the man who is alleged to have sold the land died in the year 1997 while the agreements of the land transfer was sealed in 1999, two years after his demise.

The family showed the writer a copy of the death certificate which was issued then to them by the then Rachuonyo district registrar of births and deaths and wondered how their father could wake up from his grave to sell land to the former MP who went to parliament during a by election in early 2006 occasioned by the death of former Kasipul Kabondo MP Engineer Peter Otieno Owidi in December 2005.

In the sale agreement that the police managed to seize to help with the investigations, the late Osika is purported to have used her finger print to seal the deal. But during their inquiries the police took the impressions found on the documents provided by the politician to the finger print examiner in Nairobi and the verdict was clear . The finger prints could not correspond with those of the late Osika,the examiner concluded in his report to the detectives.

”This guy must have forged the signatures of the former land registrar and of course used corrupt officials at the department of lands in Rachuonyo to make his alleged transaction to appear real. He however forgot to find out whether the man he claimed to have sold the parcel to him was dead or alive.” said an officer who was involved in the probe.

Although we can not reveal his name since he is not authorised to talk to the press, the detective confided to this writer that they plan to arrest the former law maker and charge him appropriately for the alleged fraud once the investigations are finalised.

Paddy is not new to controversies.His short stint as the Kasipul Kabondo MP was shrouded with intrigues right in the floors of parliament with such controversial outbursts involving women affairs through to that of a school he co-owned with a friend at Makadara in Nairobi whose ownership was also controversial.

He also made headlines when he declared that the CDF cash was a property of the MPs and as such they could even decide to marry with funds from the kitty. Making such a statement in full presence of the media was not an issue to Ahenda who even paraded members of his Kabondo clan whom he helped to secure jobs in parliament when he represented the constituency and urged them to protect his interests jealously.

Attempts to reach the former MP to comment on the matter bore not fruit as his cell phone went unanswered.

ENDS.