TENANTS CRY OUT FOR HELP AFTER BEING EVICTED FROM PROPERTY EMBROILED IN OWNERSHIP DISPUTE

 The audit report recommended action be taken against the top management from KQ’s procurement, treasury, accounts, ticketing, fuel and marketing departments over a litany of financial and ethical malpractices.

Hassan Zubedi seen here attending court in another matter.

An Asian businessman based in Nairobi has been accused of cruelty by a number of tenants who have since been evicted from a residential building in the leafy area of Lavington in Nairobi. The property, plot 303/560 whose ownership is in dispute is now before the courts. The illegal eviction was reported to Muthangari police station. The man now claiming ownership is businessman Hassan Zubedi former chairman of the collapsed Dubai bank. He was charged in court for stealing money from the bank.

Tenants, who spoke to The Weekly Vision on condition of anonymity, claim that he hired goons to evict them from the property and in the process of eviction, they ended up losing valuables worth hundreds of thousands of shillings. The dispute is said to pit a prominent professional from Nyanza, who has since died and Mr. Zubedi. The professional man’s family is now pursuing the matter in court.  

Mr. Zubedi is a man who has involved himself in a number of questionable businesses, the man who once operated a bank as chairman was in 2016 mentioned adversely in an audit report concerning the national carrier Kenya airways carried out by an international audit firm Deloitte. He and senior Kenya Airways management, mid-level managers and junior employees were implicated in the report and were expected to face criminal and disciplinary action. The audit report recommended action be taken against the top management from KQ’s procurement, treasury, accounts, ticketing, fuel and marketing departments over a litany of financial and ethical malpractices.

Hassan Zubedi is also embroiled in a do-or-die ownership dispute over another piece of land currently occupied by Giantmark Trade Exhibition leased to city trader and proprietor Peter Muoki. The four-year business deal between Zubedi and Mr. Muoki saw over 100 traders parade clothes, shoes, jackets, and other assorted fabrics for sale daily in tents opposite the I&M building under the umbrella of Giantmark Exhibition. The deal appears to have run into stormy waters last year when Zubedi demanded that Muoki hands over the business back to him despite a two-year lease that had been fully paid for.