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10 year land case that saw former President Kibaki take witness stand

By Allan Mungai | 7yrs ago
Former President Mwai Kibaki and seven other directors have regains control of a multi-million property and company they started in 1970s. [Photo by Kibata Kihu/Standard]

For 10 years, retired president Mwai Kibaki battled for control of a piece of land in Nyeri town.

Kibaki, together with his elder brother, Samuel Githinji, and friends, Kimwatu Kanyungu, Kiiru Gachuiga, Gadson Gitonga, and Kibera Gatu, acquired the quarter-acre in the 1970s.

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