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Why the ghosts of Muiruri Gachoka's family land battle are back

Politician Tony Gachoka. [File, Standard]

The widow of the late businessman Joseph Muiruri Gachoka is, once again, on the edge of losing the family’s Thika farm following a controversial ‘lightning speed’ allotment of the property to a private company.

Margaret Njeri Muiruri, mother of the politician Tony Gachoka and media personality Ciko Muiruri, is embroiled in a fresh dispute to save the property which also doubles up as a family home from the grasp of Floriculture International Ltd.

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