Kenya’s Cabinet Secretary for Lands, Alice Wahome, and her daughter, advocate Wangeci Wahome Akedi, have become the focus of a growing pattern of land-related allegations, culminating in a Senate summons over the Sh10 billion Two Rivers Crescent Estate dispute in Ruiru.
The immediate trigger is a contested succession case involving the late spy chief James Kanyotu.
Over 76 residents of the estate told a Senate committee they bought plots in good faith but face harassment from individuals loyal to Willy Kihara Njoki, who claims to be Kanyotu’s heir.
The family’s legal connection is central to the controversy: Alice Wahome was Njoki’s lawyer before her cabinet appointment, and her daughter’s firm, Wahome & Akedi Advocates, now represents a widow on the same side of the dispute.
This Ruiru case is the third major land-integrity scandal linked to the Cabinet Secretary in just over two years. In March 2024, Wahome was trapped by goons at a disputed Gigiri parcel, and the same month she admitted her ministry had “misbehaved” over an irregular title allocation.
Then, in February 2025, a report called for an EACC probe into claims she manipulated registry processes alongside her daughter’s firm.While both women are entitled to due process and have not been found guilty, the accumulating record including the Senate summons, past admissions, and previous calls for investigation has raised structural questions.
Senators are examining the conflict between the minister’s control over land records and her family’s private practice in contested land cases.
The Senate has ordered Wahome, Interior CS Kipchumba Murkomen, and Njoki to appear in person on August 6, 2026, to answer these questions.
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