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Land Curse: Poor widow harassed by land grabbers to her grave over property worth billions

Land Curse Syokau Kathumba
From left:Jackson Mutua (Grandson), Joyce Mukonyo, Lithah Kathumba and Amina Kathumba (sisters) when they visited Standard Group centre for the Interview.   Photo: David Njaaga

Powerful land grabbers will stop at nothing, including kidnapping and murder.

Beatrice Syokau Kathumba, whose body is lying at the Machakos Funeral Home as her close relatives walk from one office to another seeking justice and the right to lay their kin to rest, could be enjoying her sunset years if she wasn’t a landowner.

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