Judge: Order barring KEMRI from developing disputed Mwea land stilll in place

KEMRI's Director Prof Solomon Mpoke (right explains to former Kirinyaga Governor Joseph Ndathi an artistic impression of the proposed Sh10 billion ultra-modern teaching and referral hospital at Wamumu section in Mwea. [File, Standard]

A Kerugoya court has declined to vacate an earlier order stopping the Kenya Medical and Research Institute (KEMRI) from undertaking any development on a 100-acre piece of land in Mwea.

The Environment and Land Court Judge Enock Cherono told KEMRI that without a substantive application seeking for such a variation, his hands were tied and will stick to the earlier order.