Nyalenda residents’ case on a 64-acre land to be heard on July 26
By Dickson Odhiambo
July 12, 2021
Nyalenda residents’ case
on a 64-acre land to be heard on July 26
A case in which about 5000 residents within Nyalenda Area sued
the Kenya Prisons over a land it claimed within the area will continue to be
heard on this month of July 26 this year before Kisumu land and Environment
Court.
Today, the residents who are the plaintiff were heard before the
court through their Lawyer Ken Amondi of Amondi and Company Advocates.
The residents have made their submissions and it will now be the
respondent which is the Kenyan Prison’s turn to be heard as from July 26, this
year.
Nyalenda residents moved to court after the Kenya Prison service
issued an eviction letter last year wanting to evict the residents staying in a
64 acres piece of land which it claims its ownership.
They got a court injunction restraining the Prisons department
from evicting until the matter is heard and determined.
They are still in court seeking final orders that include an
injunction to the prisons from ever purporting evict the plaintiff from the
said parcel of land.
Through their Lawyer Ken Amondi, they also want the adjudication
process that was initiated way back 1978 to 1982 that was stopped be done to
completion by the National Land Commission.
They also want the Court to grant them compensation if at all
they will be evicted on such a parcel of land claiming that the land is
ancestral one.
The case is before Justice Ombwayo of Lands and Environment
Court in Kisumu.
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