Former Kangema MP Tiras Ngahu can now finally Rest in Peace.
This is after the High Court suspended a lower court’s order that had blocked his interment.
Ngahu passed on at a Nairobi hospital on 13th February 2022 after battling stomach cancer.
Earlier, a magistrate’s court in Muranga had stopped the burial following a land tussle.
The magistrate’s court orders were issued on February 15.
A family filed a petition to stop the burial on claims that the piece of land Ngahu’s family intended to bury him on was fraudulently acquired.
In a sworn affidavit, Gabriel Macharia Njoroge told senior principal magistrate P M Kiama that following his father’s death in 1992, he was appointed the administrator of his property.
In a suit in which Ngahu’s wife, Lydia Njoki, had been named as the defendant, Macharia said the former MP held a defective title deed for land parcel LR No Loc9/Kiruri1262.
However, Justice L. N Gicheru of the Environment and Land court set aside the lower courts orders on Wednesday 23rd February 2022.
Justice Gicheru said that ELC no 47 of 2017 and O.S No. 21 of 2021, which were alluded to in SPM ELC NO. E001 of 2022 at Kangema are concluded and therefore not highly contentious as averred by the respondent.
While suspending the lower courts decisions, the Judge directed that there will be an inter parties hearing on 28th February 2022 in an open court.
Tiras Nyingi Ngahu was a Kenyan politician and real estate broker.
He was elected to parliament in a September 2012 by-election to represent Kangema Constituency.
This is after the death of powerful Internal Security Minister John Michuki who represented the Constituency.
He attended Githiga Primary School and Thika High School.
He received a B.A Education from Kenyatta University in 1987 and was a director at Prime Movers Insurance Brokers.[3]
Ngahu was born in 1965 in Githiga, Kangema, to Jecinta Wambui and and Enos Ngahu.
The former MP was laid to rest on Thursday.