A tussle pitting family members against each other over the sale of a property in Kithimani area of Yatta Sub-County has today been brought before the Machakos Law Courts.
Jane Ngige, appeared before Resident Magistrate Caroline Obara seeking orders to allow her sell her late husband’s property in order to educate her children after a long standing stalemate between her in-laws could not be resolved amicably.
Ngige narrated to the court that her in laws had denied her the legal documents on the piece of land that she wanted to sell to raise money to educate her three children who she says huge school fees arrears have led them to drop out of school.
She said her in laws frustrated her efforts to sub-divide the parcel of land to enable her sell her it to raise the required funds to educate her children.
Appearing before the court, the accused, John Kivuva, who is the brother to Ngige’s deceased husband said they had not refused to give in to Ngige’s plea but they wanted the due legal process to be followed saying that the complainant had been harassing them and using the police to intimidate them.
The five-month dispute was brought to court after community elders failed to solve it. It was said to be urgent and needed court redress to enable the children continue with their education.
The magistrate directed the family to start land surveying procedures for the piece of land saying the matter was of urgency.