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No end in sight for Sh25 billion church-clan land tussle

For close to six decades, the Catholic Church and a clan in Nyeri have engaged in a vicious tussle over 2,577 acres of land worth an estimated Sh25 billion.

Since 1958, Mbari ya Murathimi has tried and failed to acquire the expansive property which they lay claim over and are accusing the church of taking advantage of the 1952 State of Emergency to grab it from their forebears.

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