Athlete Daniel Komen’s wife accuses him of selling Ksh.100M property illegally

The wife of former Kenyan 3,000-metre world record holder Daniel Komen has told an Eldoret High Court how her husband sold their matrimonial property estimated to be worth over Ksh. 100 million to fellow athletes without her consent.

While giving her evidence in chief before the presiding judge Reuben Nyakundi, Dr Joyce Kimosop Komen, a senior lecturer at Moi University, accused her husband of disposing of the family property without her knowledge despite her immense contribution and development of the property.

She sought the intervention of the court in her spirited fight to reclaim back property which she maintains is a matrimonial property that should not have been sold to the four defendants at all.

The don faulted her husband, a retired international runner, for selling the property behind her back as she termed the process illegal and asked the court to cancel the sale agreements that were entered between Komen and the said buyers.

Dr Komen sued her husband over the ownership of property including land which is in Eldoret South L.R No 8638/26 measuring approximately 89.03 hectares in Uasin Gishu county.

Others who have been dragged into the fight over the ownership of the matrimonial property are Beijing Olympic gold medalist Brimin Kipruto and two cereal farmers-cum-businessmen Felix Lagat and Peter Lagat respectively.

She further informed the court that the said property was acquired and developed during their marriage but registered in the name of her husband to hold in trust for the family.

Dr Komen told the court that she was shocked to learn that Kipchoge, who is also a two-time Olympic champion, and Kipruto, an Olympic 3,000-metre steeplechase gold medalist, were claiming to have purchased a section of their matrimonial property.

She brought to the attention of the court that the property was sold off at just Ksh.10 million to the buyers which represented just 10 percent of the actual value of the property.

The hearing of the matter will continue on July 11, 2025, when Daniel Komen is expected to take to the dock and shed light on the disputed property.