Nairobi, July 7 -- A rent-to-own dispute over Nairobi's Senteu Plaza has taken a fresh twist after tenant SBS Dunhill Group, which says it invested Sh1.2 billion in the property and surrounding infrastructure in anticipation of acquiring it, secured interim tribunal orders protecting its claimed possession of the leased premises.

The Business Premises Rent Tribunal temporarily restrained the building's current occupant, Martin Nyongesa, from interfering with the company's claimed quiet possession pending the hearing of a fresh application.

At the heart of the long-running dispute is SBS Dunhill's claim that the building owners had agreed to a rent-to-own arrangement signed in 2017 under which the company would buy the property after the...