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| Mbiyu Koinange’s Widow, Eddah Wanjiru [PHOTO: BONIFACE THUKU/STANDARD] |
NAKURU COUNTY: The trial of seven persons, among them two relatives of a former Cabinet minister, over the murder of a land rights activist took a new twist when the defence claimed that powerful Government officials planned the killing.
Activist Moses Mpoe was shot dead on December 3, 2010, alongside Parsaaiyia ole Kitu. He had been leading a campaign seeking to repossess thousands of acres of land allegedly taken away from the Maasai community by the colonialists.