Court throws out Delmonte renewal land case

Delmonte plantation. [Image: Courtesy]

Three judges are back to square one in a case on prime Del Monte Ltd land, four years after it is started. In a ruling that left the parties infuriated, Justices Kanyi Kimondo, Chacha Mwita and Wilfrida Okwany today said they have no jurisdiction to determine the lease dispute on 60,000 acres of land in Murang’a County.

What baffled the parties was the judges’ decision to hear the matter since September 2015 only to come up with an anti-climax decision that would have been dealt with in the preliminary stages before the dispute went to full hearing.