A Nyahururu court has given 14 families 15 days to enter an appearance in a land occupation case failing which the case will proceed and judgement will be entered without them.
Chief Magistrate Evans Keago’s November 16 order was served on the 14 families this week on Monday.
This comes after Samuel Maina Waweru who lives in Naivasha, Nakuru County claims to have been allocated a land in Nyahururu measuring 1.1 hectares by the Commissioner of Lands in February 2010.
From the unfolding events, the 14 families stare at possible eviction after Maina went to court claiming ownership of land they are living in at Maina village on the outskirts of Nyahururu town.
In the suit papers filed by Chege Gakuhi advocates, Maina claims the families invaded the land in 2016 and have since refused to vacate.
“The defendants have been relying on fake letters of allotment to assert their right to occupation,” claims Maina adding that the DCI, Nyahururu has failed to act despite the matter being reported.
He wants the court to order the eviction of the families from the land LR Nyahururu Municipality Block 2/545.
The father of the plaintiff, Ignatius Maina Nduru said they used private investigators in 2020 to gather names and details of the invaders for the purpose of suing them.
One of the occupants, Daniel Kanyora said he bought his plot for Sh135,000 from Wilson Kibor Koros and Benedict Kanyugo in 2015.
Koros and Kanyugo used letters of allotment dated June 1998 to convince the buyers that they were the owners of the land.
The dispute comes barely a month after the Laikipia County government carried out a plot ownership verification exercise in readiness for title deed issuance to land owners in the populous informal settlement village.
By Antony Mwangi
