By JOSEPH WANGUIMore by this AuthorResidents of Mathari location in Nyeri County have been fighting the Catholic Church for more than 50 years over ownership of about 2,500 acres of land. EMERGENCYThe suits are registered as Nairobi High Court Petition no.398/2006, Nyeri Environment and Lands Court Petition 205 of 2014, Nyeri ELC Petition No.14/2013, Nyeri High Civil Case No.212/2011 and Nyeri ELC Petition 8/2018. Related Content Catholic Church denies it grabbed clan’s landAll the suits claim that the land is ancestral and want leases in favour of the church revoked. Last month, the High Court stopped six Nyeri residents from suing the State and the church for unlawful prosecution relating to cutting coffee trees 14 years ago. Justice Teresiah Matheka dismissed the residents’ application to review her ruling dated January 31, 2018 in which she declined to allow them to sue for “malicious prosecution”.

Source: Daily Nation March 26, 2019 02:48 UTC