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The High Court has temporarily barred the government from occupying or interfering with possession of a 10,000-acre land, forming part of Delamere Estates measuring over 42,000 acres.
Judge Millicent Odeny stopped the Ministry of Lands, Public Works, Housing and Urban Development from subdividing or alienating the land.
“The defendant (ministry) or its agents are restrained from entering the said land until the case over its ownership is heard and determined,” ordered Odeny.
The judge directed parties in the case to file documents by June 10, when the court will give further directions.
The court ruled following an application by the Delamere family, through Jonathan Stewart Coulson.
Coulson, through Lawyer Victor Wekhomba, sued the Cabinet Secretary (CS) and Principal Secretary (PS) Lands, the National Land Commission (NLC) and the Attorney General.
Coulson argued that, through a letter dated March 28, PS Nixon Korir claimed that Lord Hugh Cholmondeley had offered to surrender 10,000 acres to the government in 2017.
“The PS quoted the wrong title number of the land and wrongly referred me as the Managing Trustee, Soysambu Conservancy, saying the land was to be used to resettle squatters,” he said.
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