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NYERI COUNTY: A close view of her house from the outside tells of biting poverty. The structure she calls home is a crumbling mud-walled house with a rusting iron sheet roof. Mary Wairimu Weru, 67, appears traumatised by the riddle attached to her name.
Wairimu is in the middle of a tumultuous land dispute with her in-laws for the control of a steeply sloping 4.8 acre piece of land in Kiboya village in Ichamara, Mukurwe-ini District. An unmarried woman, she has been living on her late father’s land for more than 50 years. It is a land dispute that has sapped her energy and gulped her financial resources. Her problems began when her in-laws acquired the land’s title deed.
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