With Sh22,000 salary, Lucy Kabuu's ex-husband bought millions in property
Rift Valley
By
Daniel Chege
| Sep 25, 2025
Marathon star Lucy Kabuu's former husband was put to task on how he acquired property and a vehicle worth millions of shillings despite earning a paltry Sh22,000 a month.
Jeremiah Maina filed a case in 2017, seeking 50 per cent of their matrimonial estate. He claimed that he helped contribute to the family estate, estimated to be worth over Sh70 million.
However, on Tuesday, during cross-examination by Kabuu’s lawyer, Maina found it hard to explain how he purchased property forming part of the estate. Court documents showed that between 2009 and 2014, Maina, a police officer, was making between Sh22,000 and Sh28,000 per month as salary.
However, within the five years, he produced documents in court allegedly showing that he purchased matrimonial properties using his income, worth over Sh9 million, despite his total salary standing at Sh1.5 million.
Maina, who refuted the claim that he bought majority of the property using Kabuu’s earnings from athletics, was put through his earnings between June 2012 and December 2012. In June, bank statements showed that he earned a Sh22,000 salary per month, plus another Sh500,000 deposited in his bank account.
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“I did not receive the money from Kabuu. I sold a vehicle for the money I made,” testified Maina.
On July 26, 2012, Maina’s account received another Sh500,000. He testified that he earned Sh500,000 when he sold potatoes from his farm.
However, he failed to produce receipts and evidence to back his claim. In August 2012, records showed that apart from the salary, Maina also received Sh100,000. Asked where he got the money, he said he sold cabbages.
“I always took cabbages and potatoes to the market where I got paid, sometimes by cash. I did not receive any receipts in the market,” he testified.
In October 2012, Maina received Sh4 million in two installments of Sh2 million each. He was asked to explain where the money came from, and he testified that he sold two plots in Ol Kalou, Nyandarua, for Sh2 million.
He testified that he had purchased the plots before he married Kabuu and that is why he sold them without consulting her.
However, Maina admitted that Kabuu sent him Sh2 million to build a plot in Umoja Estate. On November 9, 2012, Maina received Sh250,000 from Patrick Wachira. He testified that it was payment for potatoes he had sold to him. The same month, he received another Sh100,000 from Wachira.
On December 13, 2012, Maina was paid Sh401,000. He testified that he had sold a plot. Maina was shown bank statements from his Barclays Bank Account, where he received USD43,000, then Sh3.66 million on May 24, 2012, on behalf of Kabuu.
He defended himself, saying they shared the bank account, but pressed further, he admitted that the account only held his name.
On September 5, 2012, his account received USD26,000, then Sh2.21 million, Kabuu’s money, and on December 24, 2012, he received USD34,000 dollars, then Sh2.89 million.
“I resigned from the police service in 2014 to help coach Kabuu. It was some of my coaching skills and advice that helped Kabuu win medals and prize money, and that should be considered by the court,” Maina testified.
However, court records showed that his resignation letter dated July 16, 2014, was accepted on September 4, 2014, just three months before Maina and Kabuu divorced.
Maina also claimed he supported their child, but he could not remember the child’s age or where he goes to school.
He, however, produced documents showing that he was the one who enrolled the child in the school and paid fees for a term in 2012.
“Apart from my salary, I made money through agriculture, where I sold potatoes, cabbage, and milk from my cows. I used to farm on my 11-acre land,” he testified.