The High Court has temporarily prohibited the government from occupying with a 10,000-acre portion of the Delamere Estates, which spans 42,516 acres.
Justice Millicent Odeny ordered the Ministry of Lands to refrain from subdividing or alienating the land, and instructed the parties to submit their documents by June 10.
This ruling followed an application by the Delamere family, represented by Jonathan Stewart Coulson, who has sued the Lands Cabinet Secretary and Principal Secretary, the National Land Commission and the Attorney General.
Coulson argued that, through a letter dated March 28, PS Nixon Korir claimed that Lord Hugh Cholmondeley had offered to surrender 10,000 acres to the government in 2017. "The PS quoted the wrong title number of the land and wrongly referred me as the Managing Trustee, Soysambu Conservancy, saying the land was to be used to resettle squatters," he said. "The pattern of events is indicative of an illegal and fraudulent operation to forcibly acquire the land.
