World marathon legend Eliud Kipchoge has been sucked into a dispute involving a Sh100 million piece of property between fellow athlete Daniel Komen and his wife Joyce Komen.
Joyce who is a lecturer at Moi University in Eldoret, has sued her husband, alongside two other athletes, World Marathon record holder Eliud Kipchoge Brimin Kipruto, the 2008 winner of 3,000 metre steeplechase in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.
According to papers filed in court, Joyce is accusing her husband of selling the family property to the athletes without involving her, despite having equal shares in the disputed parcel of land.
At the centre of the legal fight before Justice Reuben Nyakundi of the High Court in Eldoret is a prime agricultural land measuring 200 acres, LR Number 8638/26, Southern East of Eldoret Municipality in Uasin Gishu County.
Mrs Komen says she was, “shocked to learn that Kipchoge and Kipruto were claiming to have bought the land.”
“I have also learned with shock that the property was sold at just Sh10 million, which represents just 10 percent of the actual value of the land,” Mrs Komen says in an affidavit filed in court through her lawyer Patrick Kibii,
She alleges that she contributed a substantial amount of money towards the development of the property, and that it is currently worth well over Sh100 million.
“My husband has never mentioned it to me that he had sold the land, leave alone the intention to sell the property,” argues Mrs Komen in the documents before court.
The disputed property, she says was acquired and developed by joint efforts of the couple during their marriage but was registered in the name of her husband in the trust of the family.
“I took various loans to fund the purchase and development of the property, which was the only family home as I married Komen at a time when he had no place to call home,” she states in court documents.
