Former Laikipia East Member of Parliament Anthony Mutahi has been charged with stealing a title deed from the Ministry of Lands headquarters at Ardhi House.
The allegedly stolen title deed is of a parcel of land valued at Ksh18.8 million.
Mutahi appeared before Nairobi Chief Magistrate Martha Mutuku on Thursday, January 14, 2021.
Having denied the charges against him, the former legislator was released on a Ksh300,000 cash bail or Ksh1 million bond.
In 2020, Mutahi was in court over another controversy centred around land ownership.
In August, he was sentenced to a six-month civil jail for building a house on a disputed piece of land.
The former legislator had been charged for interfering with the land suit between him and Stuart Richard Cunningham in Nanyuki despite court orders.
Justice Mary Oundo had ruled, “Mutahi is hereby committed to civil jail for a term of six months for contempt of court for deliberately disobeying orders of this court given on November 8, 2017.”
An application filed by the complainant under urgency at the Environment and Land Court in Nyeri sought to have Mutahi committed to civil jail for developing the land in Nanyuki against a court order.
Judge Joseph Onguto of the High Court at Milimani, Nairobi in 2016 ordered the former lawmaker not to interfere with the land until the ownership dispute was determined.
Also, in 2017, Judge Lucy Waithaka restrained him and his representatives from interfering with the land pending the case's hearing and determination.
Mutahi had argued before the court that he was supposed to occupy 18 acres of the land while Cunningham claimed that the land was invaded by an armed gang in a bid to take over the property.
At the time, the complainant admitted that he did not have a title deed to prove ownership of the land 25 years after buying the land as he claimed.
He therefore sued the registrar of lands for issuing a title deed to a third party, Mutahi.
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