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A section of the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport.
All her life, 89-year-old Beatrice Syokau Kathumba, a peasant living just next to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA), never courted controversy. But her death has triggered a bitter struggle for her property.
And five years later her body is still in a mortuary in Machakos, waiting to be collected and buried as her descendants battle for the control of land, along Mombasa Road, next to JKIA, which is worth billions of shillings
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