Ticking time bomb for land buyers in Kisii as succession forgeries rise

A typical village set up in Gusii. Property disputes are rife in the region. [Eric Abuga, Standard]

Several families in Kisii and Nyamira counties are entangled in property feuds emanating from inter-meddling and botched succession of various estates.

There are fears that most land and other property buyers stand to lose out on their material goods once such cases end up in court. In the melee, some families battling such court cases opt to immediately oxidise the body to thwart any possible exhumations, where people were buried in the disputed land.