KICUKIRO - A man resident in Kanombe Sector, Kicukiro District in Kigali City, is accused of delaying to implement a court’s decision that gave inheritance rights to a girl, now aged nine.

Nyarugenge Court of Higher Instance in 2006 ordered Jean Marie Vianney Nsengimana to hand over a number of property to Liliane Umuhoza whose father died during that year.

Nsengimana, a businessman is a brother to Umuhoza’s late father, Jean Bosco Sebazungu.

But Sebazungu’s widow and mother to Umuhoza, Goreth Mukagasana, said that Nsengimana, who once named himself Jean Bosco Sebazungu ostensibly to be able confiscate his late brother’s property, has since refused to act as the court ordered two years ago.

Nsengimana lost the case at both Kagarama Court of First Instance in Kicukiro District and at Nayrugenge Court of Higher Instance.

The court had ruled that Umuhoza be given her father’s a house with its effects, a vehicle and a motorcycle. The house is situated in Kanombe.

However, Mukagasana said that her brother-in-law (Nsengimana) instead sold off both the vehicle and the motorcycle, and never gave the proceedings to his niece.

Mukagasana accused Nsengimana of harassing and attempting to harm her.

"Last year I was almost kidnapped when a group of strangers found me in Giporoso-Kabeza and tried to force me into a car boot. Fortunately people around came to my rescue," she recalled, adding that her life has for long been in danger.

Efforts to contact Nsengimana were futile by press time as his cellular phone was answered by someone who rudely questioned us why he was being called by the press.

Mukagasana, 42, also accused the Executive Secretary of Kanombe Sector Claude Ibambasi of bullying her.

"One day he pushed me out of his office telling me to go back and seek help from those that made the (court) ruling," she claimed.

However, Ibambasi refuted the accusations.

Asked why the court order had not been respected two years later, Ibambasi attributed the delays to other widows of late Sebazungu, who have come forward to claim their shares from their late husband’s property.

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