This, however, sparked protests by some villagers, forcing them to get
into a fight with law enforcement officers who had been called to
oversee the process.
In dispersing the angry mob, the officers fired several teargas canisters chase away the demonstrators.
After the coffin was pulled out, and placed into a waiting police lorry,
a group of youths was ordered to demolish a house that belonged to the
deceased on the disputed land.
According to Nairobi News, the conflict started in 2014 following Mr. Ouko’s death.
It was claimed that the deceased’s uncle had sold the piece of land to Mr. Onunga at a 'cheap price' in 2007.
However, Mr. Onunga insists he is the rightful owner of the land that was legally purchased in 1986 and transaction concluded.
'In the year 2007, I was given this land by my dad. I have lived here since. At some point, there were claims that the land was bought at a throwaway price and that we should give it out,” he says.
“Following the deceased’s death in 2014, his clan unanimously agreed he should be buried in the controversial parcel of land, but I moved to court to challenge the decision. But as the case went on, the deceased relatives went ahead to bury him one and a half months ago.
'I, therefore, reported the matter to the police as well as obtained orders to exhume the body and demolish a structure that had been put up on my land,' He said.
According to Kennedy Onyango, the acting Korando B sub-location Chief,
he said they got orders stopping burial and any construction on the
disputed land.
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