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Kenya: Ol Jorai Petitioners Lose Land Case

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The Lands court has nullified over 3,000 title deeds belonging to members of Ol Jorai community in Gilgil citing they were acquired illegally.

Justice Sila Munyao ordered Thursday that the documents be removed form land survey records.

The case was filed by local politician Peter Ndungunya Ole Osono on behalf of 6,800 people.

FAKE DOCUMENTS

The judge noted that the purported process of acquisition and consequent sub division of the 8,000 acres of land by the members of Ol Jorai community was fraudulent.

Justice Munyao warned that no deals should take place using the fake title deeds.

Mr Ole Osono had sued the Lands ministry in 2007 for fraudulently transferring the parcel of the land which they owned to Solai Royubei farm company.

He told the court that the members of the Ol Jorai community were the legal owners of the parcel after being settled by the government in 1997 and allowed to subdivide it after paying Sh10 million and issued with the title deeds.

Mr Ole Osono sought orders declaring them the legal owners of the land through adverse possession and bar the Solai Royubei farm from interfering with their occupation.

The company, however, in its counter claim laid claim to the land and produced evidences proving their purchase of the land from the ADC in 1995 at a cost of Sh 24 million.