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Supreme Court dismisses decades-long land dispute against Nyatike MP Edick Anyanga

Former Nyatike MP and the chairman kenya new cleare and regulatory authority Edick Anyanga while flanked by UDA coordinator in Migori county Fred Siengo is addressing the press on July 3. [File, Standard)

The Supreme Court of Kenya has brought to an end a protracted legal battle over a four-acre parcel of prime land in Nairobi’s Garden Estate, dismissing an appeal against former Nyatike Member of Parliament Edick Omondi Anyanga and his wife, Anne Anyanga.

In a landmark judgment delivered by a five-judge bench led by Deputy Chief Justice Philomena Mwilu, the apex court unanimously ruled that the appeal by the estate administrators of the late businessman Hiram Bere Kinuthia did not raise constitutional issues sufficient to invoke the court’s jurisdiction under Article 163(4)(a) of the Constitution.

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