Five people arrested for forging Nakuru War Memorial Hospital lease documents

Five people have been arrested in Nakuru over alleged forgery of lease documents used to acquire a 99-year lease title to a 25-acre piece of land that hosts the War Memorial Hospital.

The five include War Memorial Hospital Directors Simon Watene and Roger Joslyn, land surveyor Kipkemboi Kigen, and two Ministry of Lands officials Peter Nzuki Mutwiwa and Stephen Kihengo Mwaura.

The suspects are accused of fraudulently acquiring the documents to renew the lease title after it expired in 2021.

Detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) office in Nakuru have been conducting a probe into the matter for three months.

The Nakuru War Memorial Hospital management and the Nakuru County government have been embroiled in a tussle over the 25-acre piece of land.

In October last year, the Nakuru County government took over the management of the hospital on grounds that the management had forged documents.