Mohamed Abdi Mohamed Pleads Not Guilty to Forgery Charges in Alleged Ksh35 Million Runda Land Grab Case.
A Nairobi court has granted bail to a man accused of orchestrating an alleged scheme to unlawfully acquire a prime Runda property valued at approximately Ksh35 million through forged ownership documents.
Mohamed Abdi Mohamed appeared before the Milimani Law Courts, where he denied multiple criminal charges relating to land parcel LR No. 12672/173 (IR 89485), a 0.2412-hectare property situated in the affluent Runda estate.
According to the prosecution, Mohamed is accused of working with other individuals who have not been charged to allegedly create and use fraudulent documents in a bid to wrest ownership of the land from its registered owner, Margaret Mwikali Katuse.
Court papers indicate that the accused faces several counts, including forgery, making false documents without authority, and uttering false documents. Prosecutors allege that among the documents fraudulently prepared were a certificate of grant, a sale agreement, and land transfer forms designed to portray a lawful transfer of the property.
The prosecution claims that one of the allegedly forged documents was a certificate of grant bearing an entry indicating that ownership of the land had been transferred to Mohamed. Investigators further allege that a sale agreement dated April 19, 2006, was fabricated and falsely represented as having been executed by the complainant.
In addition, Mohamed is accused of preparing a purported land transfer instrument linked to the property and presenting the disputed documents to investigators at DCI Headquarters along Kiambu Road in June 2021 while claiming they were genuine.
The state contends that the documents formed part of a broader attempt to establish ownership rights over the highly valuable parcel, estimated to be worth about Ksh35 million.
Mohamed denied all the charges when he took a plea before the court.
He was released on a bond of Ksh200,000 with one surety of a similar amount, or alternatively a cash bail of Ksh100,000, and was directed to provide one contact person as part of the bail conditions.
The court scheduled the matter for pre-trial directions on July 7, 2026.
The allegations remain before the court, and the accused is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
