Court orders president to vacate his farm

 

The Court of Appeal in Kenya has ordered former Kenyan president Daniel Arap Moi to vacate a 100-acre piece of land he had reportedly grabbed from Malcom Bell during the time he was president of Kenya.

The tough-talking judges gave Daniel Arap Moi only six months to return the farm to its real owners and warned him never to use his positions to grab peoples’ property. The six-month period according to the court will allow Moi to harvest crops in the farmland before the land reverts to Bell’s son.

The judgment was read by Lady Justice Martha Koome on Thursday. The court of appeal overturned a High Court ruling that had given the land to Daniel Arap Moi on grounds of adverse possession. The High Court Justice Muga Apondi had earlier ruled that Moi had occupied the land for over 2 years uninterrupted and so according to the law the farm belonged to him. But the Appellate Court quashed Justice Apondi’s ruling.

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