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‘Your husband was mine too’: Aunt and niece in court over Sh100m property

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A Sh100 million property dispute turned dramatic on Tuesday, July 27, when a 74-year-old woman in Nakuru accused her 51-year-old niece of eloping with her (aunt’s) husband. Susan Nyambura claims she adopted her niece, Lucy Wanjiku, in the 1970s after learn...
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