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Court gives lands team more time in clan case

By Kepher Otieno | 6yrs ago
Airline workers whose flight was rescheduled to Mombasa arrive at Kisumu International Airport on March 6, 2019 after KAA staff downed their tools. [Denish Ochieng/Standard]

The hearing of a Sh2.6 billion compensation claim by the Kogony clan airport expansion land has been adjourned to July 23.

In a petition filed last year, the clan claims that it gave 508 acres of its ancestral land in 1914 for construction and another 373 in 1942 for expansion of what is today Kisumu International Airport (KIA).

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