A broker identified as Japheth Malusi and county planner Joseph Mutua brought him the documents.
A Nairobi City County planner allegedly paid a private professional Sh121,000 for the use of his credentials so that a change-of-user application could be lodged and approved from inside the same office, clearing the way for an 18-storey building in Eastleigh that collapsed on 23 October 2026 and killed eight people.
Physical planner Nathan Mutunga Kiti, registration number 0274, told the Nairobi County Assembly Committee on Urban Planning that he never met the developer.
A broker identified as Japheth Malusi and county planner Joseph Mutua brought him the documents.
Mutunga used his own login on the county portal, the application converting the plot from a single dwelling to commercial and multi-dwelling use was granted, and Mutua paid him Sh121,000 through M-Pesa.
Mutunga said his role ended there. He did not establish who controlled the site, whether the estate of the late Wilson Mutia Musyoki had properly authorised the work, or how the structure would eventually be built.
When committee members pressed him on contradictions in his account of who introduced whom, chairman Geoffrey Majiwa warned that further inconsistency would see him treated as a hostile witness.
The change-of-user approval was recorded on 17 October 2024.
