Court orders State to pay freedom fighter Fred Kubai's widow Sh500m for land

Christina Gakuhi Kiragu alias Christina Gakuhi Kubai at the Milimani Law Courts. [Fidelis Kabunyi, Standard]

The government has been ordered to compensate the widow of freedom fighter Fred Kubai more than Sh500 million for forcibly taking her land to build a hospital.

Environment and Land Court judge Mwangi Njoroge ruled that Christine Kubai is the registered owner of the 10-acre land in Naivasha, Nakuru County, but since the land has a public hospital built on it, the government must compensate her.