Supreme Court opens doors for siblings to reclaim ancestral land

Chief Justice David Maraga (left) and justices Mohamed Ibrahim and Smokin Wanjala (right). A Supreme Court ruling gives hope to those dispossessed of ancestral land by relatives. [Boniface Okendo, Standard]

A Supreme Court judgement has given a second chance to people who have lost land to relatives who were holding it in trust to reclaim it.

For many years, the practice has been that for one to get a piece of ancestral land, they had to prove that they had actually lived on it for some time or possessed communal land.