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How granny lost Sh100m land over 45-day delayed appeal

Efureith Irima Mugo during an interview with 'The Standard'. [Amos Kareithi, Standard]

Homeless, drained and penniless. This is the outcome of a 51-year legal tussle which has cost a 70-year-old Embu grandmother her ancestral land worth an estimated Sh100 million.

Efureith Irima Mugo and her lawyer Rose Njeru are now blaming a 45-day delay at the height of Covid-19 pandemic in obtaining court proceedings which ultimately crippled their quest to appeal against what they perceived as unfavourable judgement.

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