Meru judge to simultaneously listen to seven Isiolo plots disputes

Meru ELC judge Lucy Mbugua at her court on May 21, 2019. Justice Mbugua was feted by the Judiciary Performance Management Directorate as the best performing judge in country in the rate of resolving filed cases in the period 2017/18 after she recorded a 268 percent rate in clearing backlogs.

The court has ordered the director of survey to visit Mwangaza and Kiwanjani estates in Isiolo town that have been dogged by land ownership disputes.

The order came after Meru Land and Environment Court judge Lucy Mbugua listened to legal arguments of eight lawyers representing hundreds of litigants in claims against the plot allotment in Isiolo going back several decades.