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Granny seeks JSC help to end years' long land row

Naivanus Wanjiru Ngori displays documents she had filed in Court to Appeal against the ruling of the High Court in Nakuru that directed she be evicted from a prime parcel of land she has known as home all her life. [photo: Steve Mkawale]

Naivanus Wanjiru Ngori is desperate. Her predicament is compounded by the fact that she is a widow and faces eviction from land she has known as home since 1950s.

The 95-year-old woman’s woes began in 2007 when a Nakuru court ruled that the two-acre land she occupied was not hers. Apparently, one of her sisters had sold it without her knowledge.

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