Cohen’s family wants Wairimu barred from using his surname
The fight for the control of a multi-million-shilling estate of the late Dutch tycoon Tob Cohen has taken a new twist after his family questioned Sarah Wairimu’s use of her husband’s surname.
In an application lodged in the succession case before the Family Court at the Milimani Law Courts by Cohen’s sister Gabriel Van Straten, the family wants the court to bar Wairimu from using his name, saying she never changed her name during her marriage to Cohen.
“Wairimu never adopted one of the names of the deceased and hitherto, she has never by way of a deed poll opted to changing her name by adopting ‘Cohen’s’ name and thus the reference of herself as Sarah Wairimu Kamotho Cohen in the various applications filed before court is not only meant to confuse the court by obscuring the mind of the court and seeking unnecessary sympathy or empathetic treatment from court,” says Straten.
Through lawyer Danstan Omari, she also wants all applications filed by Wairimu to be struck out for misrepresentation.
“The applications filed before this Court as far and to the extent that they have been filed by one Sarah Wairimu Kamotho Cohen, are incompetent and untenable in the eyes of the law for having been filed by a fictitious person and a person unknown to the law and to us,” read the court papers.
