Disobeying court orders surest recipe for anarchy

NAIROBI: Of late, there have been a plethora of cases of litigants—even those in authority—disobeying courts orders. In one of the incidents, an MP attempted to evict a Nanyuki farmer from a 20-acre parcel his family had occupied for 21 years in blatant disregard of an existing court order. Police were told that the politicians hired youths who blocked the farmer from accessing his land, and at one point the farmer even contemplated using a helicopter to get to his property which was partly damaged, particularly the horse stables.

This a few days after a tenant complained in a letter to the President published in a local newspaper advert which stated that Administration Police officers and a group of youths forcibly evicted him for a shop he had been renting for 35 years and attempted to install a new tenant to the premises even though a court caveat forbade it. In the process, the trader noted, retail goods with Sh20 million, were destroyed.