A family in Nganga ini village, Kangema, Murang’a is waiting for an auctioneer to evict them from an ancestral land measuring 12 acres.
The family of the late Julius Wachira with 10 members
lost control of their land with more than 8,500 tea bushes to their grandmother Lucy Watiri Muburi
following a suit.
Now the family blame their predicament of their
lawyer for having failed to file a notice for appeal of the Judgment by
Environment and Lands Court Judge Grace Kemei of 2018.
They
have been battling of the control of land registered Loc9/Kanyenya-ini/574
worth Sh50 million, that the late Wachira accommodated Watiri’s husband the late Mathew Muburi Muya
After the death of Maleine Wairimu
Wachira, who had been registered administrator’s
of Wachira’s property, Watiri moved to court to
claim the ownership of the suit
land.
Wairimu’s
children Njoroge F.A and Aloise Mwangi had applied to obtain a grant of
administration before Watiri lodged an opposition in court.
Following the land case, Wachira family has
been restrained from plucking green leaf
from their land, as Watiri has full control.
A house that the late Julius Wachira built for his family
The family has written to the President of Court of Appeal seeking be allowed to contest the judgment citing there was an agreement between their father Julius Wachira and Mathew Muburi that he was to buy an acre of land at Sh30,000.
The tea plantation Wachira's family has been restrained from going near
Pic below..Njoroge FA seated and a relative looking at documents pertaining ownership of their piece of land now in the contest between Wachira and Muburi's families.
At the time of his death Muburi had only paid
Sh3,000.
The
villagers have described Watiri as a squatter
for intruding into the property belonging to the late Wachira and his
grandchildren.
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