She looked at Mish and mouthed a "thank you" to her. "You can read the will now,sir" Ivana said politely.
The lawyer cleared his throat pulled out a sealed brown envelope. He read the writings that were written on it. It was written MR BOMBWE'S LAST WILL ENTRUSTED TO LAWYER SIFUNA FWAMBA in bold and capital letters.
He opened it and started reading it. " I Lorenzo Bombwe had only one child with the name Ivana Venus Bombwe, One brother Evans Mukhongo, one Niece Mish Mukhongo and one sister in-law Elizabeth Mukhongo.
My total assets amounts to firty billion, l have no debt whatsoever. The assets are ten acres of land, eight bedroom mansion, Luhyahood dream company and seven luxurious cars namely black lamborghini aventador, black Maybach, white Porsche, G-wargon land cruiser, black private nissan,Silver bugatti veyron and mercedes benz c300.
My daughter will have fifty percent of the assets and that is , a mansion, ten acres of land, lamborghini,Porsche and silver bugatti veyron.
My brother will receive a G wagon and black Nissan, My niece will have Maybach and My sister in law will have the mercedes benz"
The lawyer stopped reading and lifted his head to look at the inheritors. Ivana narrowed her eyes as he looked at the lawyer. "Is that all?" She asked.
"Yes as you can see l have close the will"
"What do you mean, who is owning the company?" She asked while squinting her eyes.
"Miss Bombwe l read what was written here, l really don't know" he said while looking at Mr Mukhongo who avoided his eye contact with him. Paul noticed that action between them he decided to ask the lawyer.
"What do you mean you don't know yet my father in-law entrusted the will to you?" The lawyer kept quite, Paul waited for an answer or support from the family member but non spoke. "This means only one thing the will is fault" he said.
Everybody turned and looked at him including his wife. Ivana wanted to ask him how the will is fault but her uncle spoke. He crossed his arms on his chest and asked him.
" How can you say the will is fault yet it was sealed?"
"Uncle in law with due respect, how can everything be included in the will yet no one is left in care of the company, it means the company belongs to so....before he could finish speaking Mr Mukhongo cut him shot.
"Who are you to meddle in our family business?" He asked Paul with disgust visible in his tone. Instead of Paul answering Ivana asked him.
"Uncle you seem defensive about the will, do you know anything, why can't you tell us, did dad leave you in church of the company, Uncle?"
Mr Mukhongo had trouble maintaining eye contact as he answered" you see ..Iv..Ivana, l can..t hide anything from you guys we are family" he stummerred. He cleared the throat so that his voice can be stern than tremble while speaking. " Your dad never spoke about the will with me, so last week when the board were pushing for a new CEO l was stressed and l didn't know what to do. By coincidence l met lawyer Sifuna, he asked me when are we ready to hear the will. So l told him the suitable day and that's why l told you to come today, l know nothing about the will"
To Ivana and Mish he was convincing but not to Paul and Mrs Mukhongo. She decided to ask him, "You promised to tell us when you have the next board meeting?, You could have informed us especially Ivana, don't you think?.