The Kirima family was given orders to evict thousands of people from a nearly 1,000-acre tract of land in the Njiru, Chokaa, and Mihango districts. A lawsuit has been filed at the High Court to stay the Environment and Land Court judgment.
The petitioners assert in court filings that the Kirima family won the judgment through fraud and that the court was provided with forged documents.
To get a stay order, one of the petitioners—the administrator of Dominico De Masi’s estate, who is said to have sold the land to the late politician GerIshon Kirima—moved the court, claiming that they never transferred the politician the land.
The court filings stated, “The Honorable Court was presented with fake documents and the Respondents obtained the judgment through fraud.”
“The Honorable Court should order a review of the judgment to preserve its sanctity and integrity, allow the applicant to present all relevant evidence, and clear the court of any potential misuse of forged documents.”
Bernado Vicezo De Masi, an Italian national, requests an injunction in the lawsuit in his application.
In addition, he is requesting that the court order a reconsideration of the ruling made by Justice S. Okong’o on October 23, which ordered the occupants of land with LR. No. 5908/8 to leave by December 31st, failing which the Kirima Estate Administrators would evict them.
In addition, the administrator has refuted rumors that he sold the land to the late Kirima in the 1970s and claimed to have been in contact with the squatters who were occupying their property in an attempt to agree.
The statements come after similar ones made by Embakasi East MP Babu Owino, who asserted on Friday that the late Starehe MP was not the legitimate owner of the 1,000 acres of land under issue in the Njiru, Chokaa, and Mihango regions.
In addition to threatening to fight the eviction threat in court, MP Babu claimed that the land’s original owner was an Italian national who bought it from a man of Indian blood in 1966.
