Two siblings sue half brother, sister for selling ancestral land

Swaleh Hassan and his sister Rukia Hassan protest before Shanzu Law Courts Magistrate Diana Mochache when they appeared before her for the mention of their family property wrangle case, May 21, 2018. [GIDEON MAUNDU/STANDARD]

Two siblings, who have sued their stepbrother and stepsister for forging a title deed and selling 4.8 acres of their ancestral land, want the case transferred to another court over delays.

Swaleh Hassan Ali and Rukia Hassan Ali had accused Mohamed Hassan and Rehema Ali of selling the land left to them by their late father Hussein Ali, who died on March 25, 1976 aged 95. “I went to the High Court in Mombasa on November 4, 1993 and acquired a letter to administer the 4.8-acre land that belonged to my grandfather and father,” said Swaleh, adding that he also got his father’s death certificate.