Beware: Land fraudsters selling land of deceased owners

Residents from Mwicuiri Settlement Scheme in Kieni, Nyeri County celebrate after they were issued with title deeds by Kieni MP Kanini Kega, on July 26, 2017. [Kibata Kihu/Standard]

Fraudsters have invented new tricks to steal land, including causing the dead to ‘come back to earth’ to seal land deals and then crawl back to the land of the dead.

In the new trend that has baffled legal experts, the fraudsters then sell the land to unsuspecting people and vanish into thin air after pocketing millions of shilling, leaving the buyers and the disinherited person(s) to battle it out in court.