The government has moved before the Environment and Lands Court seeking to have a man who sold a land in Nakuru be held responsible over the transaction.
The government wants Philip Kamau Njoroge to answer to allegations that he duped the State into buying the disputed Ndonga farm in Subukia, Nakuru County.
The State had bought the 750-acre parcel of land to settle the 2007-2008 post-election violence victims in Nakuru.
In 2011, Njoroge’s siblings, nine sisters and a nephew, move to court seeking to challenge the sale of the land claiming that the land was sold without their consent.
State counsel Winnie Cheruiyot in her application before court wants Njoroge enjoined as a respondent in the case and defend himself over the sale of the land at Sh95 million.
Njoroge was also accused of allegedly forging the power of attorney in order to sell the land and if found guilty, Cheruiyot wants that he bears the burden of compensating the 267 IDPs if the purchase is revoked.
“It is in the wider interest of justice that the proposed interested party/respondent be made party to this suit so that he can come and shed light into the alleged forgery of the power of the attorney, which none of the parties in this suit is a party to,” said Cheruiyot as quoted by nation.co.ke.
Judge Dalmas Ohungo ruled that Njoroge should be enjoined in the case and be listed as a respondent in order to defend himself.
The Ndonga family had claimed that Njoroge was only an administrator of their late father’s estate claiming that he colluded with the government to sell the land at a cheaper price.
The case will be heard on October 28.