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Kenya Ports Authority loses bid to regain property

Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) has lost the fight to kick out a Mombasa tycoon from a prime plot, along Likoni Channel, that was leased to his company in 1950.

KPA owns the land but has had to contend with a 99-year colonial lease granted to John Grossert and Company since 1950. Al Noor Habib Jiwan, which owns African Marine and General Engineering Company (AMGECO), acquired majority shareholding in John Grossert Company after independence thus inheriting the lease.

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