Bishop, 20 families spend night in cold after demolitions

One of the houses belonging to AIPCA Arch-Bishop Fredrick Wang’ombe’s family that was demolished in Rwanyambo village in Kinangop, Nyandarua County.

Tens of families, including that of a bishop, were left homeless after hired people demolished their houses in Kinangop, Nyandarua County.

During the incident at Rwanyambo village, the family of AIPCA head Arch-Bishop Fredrick Wang'ombe and 20 others were left counting losses following the early morning demolition.

In contention is a piece of land the bishop said had been left to him and some family members by their parents. The land has been grabbed by influential people in Government, he said.

He wondered why police would accompany the goons to the land they have known as home for more than 50 years, and called on the Government to intervene.

"We have one man who has been disturbing us for years and now has succeed in illegally obtaining documents of land ownership,” he said.

Wang'ombe said the land has never been sold and has been used as ancestral land for their family ever since their parents died "many years" ago.

"The man who was at one time a Kanu chairman has been issuing threats and intimidating the families to move out of the land," he said.

Head of AIPCA in Nyandarua South, Bishop John Maina, questioned the move by police to involve themselves in an "illegality."

Maina said the issue of land grabbing was rife in the area and called on police to be custodians of the law.