The Environment and Lands Court has urged members of a land buying company claiming ownership of an 18,000 acre of land to keep the peace with Maasai community members.
Justice Sila Munyao said the parties ought to restrain their members from engaging in violent encounters against one another until the matter is fully heard and determined.
The Judge made the order after the warring factions presented in court two counter applications seeking to be declared owners of the over 30, 000 acre piece of land within Maai-Mahiu area.
The court also ordered Kennedy Pelei and his co-applicants to file a clear copy of an alleged title deed, they are hinging their case on, in which they claim ownership of the large tract of land also claimed by the over 7,000 Utheri wa lari members who have individual title deeds to the land.
While Maasai Community members lodge a claim of adverse possession and are seeking to have tittle deeds issued to the company members declared null and void with the later claiming the same.
The court heard that the Maasai Community members had always been owners of the land where they used to graze their animals but Utheri wa Lari members have filed papers showing they spent Sh 32 million in purchasing the land from its previous owner and peacefully moved in to occupy the land.
But their peaceful occupation was interrupted in 1992 when ethnic clashes erupted which saw their houses torched and property taken away.
This, they aver, led to an on and off occupation where they visited the land to cultivate it only for the herdsmen to drive their animals to the property to graze their animals.
The court said the case ought to be heard soonest after the parties file their papers by March 12.