The family of a former Gem MP is seeking justice after suspected land grabbers blocked them from accessing their land in Karen. The three sons of Aggrey Otieno Ambala are seeking the Government’s intervention to help them repossess a 10-acre parcel of land worth Sh 500 million. The property was returned to the family after a 30-year court battle for the multi-million shilling estate left behind by the former assistant minister who died in 1985.
The dispute had pitted Ambala’s children from his first wife against their step-sisters from the second wife. In April, the Court of Appeal settled one of the longest running family disputes by redistributing the estate to all the family members.
Appellate judges Erastus Githinji, Hannah Okwengu and Jamila Mohammed revoked the estate’s land titles, which had been irregularly issued to third parties, and restored the property to Ambala’s children. But almost seven months after the ruling, the former MP’s sons have not accessed the land.
According to the Ambala brothers, the Lands ministry cancelled all titles irregularly issued to individuals who had grabbed their land.
In another letter to the DCI through their lawyer Gilbert Mungu, the brothers complained that they had already identified the trespasser who had hired goons to keep them off, but no action was being taken.
[Article source: Standard Digital, by Paul Ogemba]
