Woman awarded KSh 1 billion by court in Moi's land case abandons home ▷ Kenya News

- Susan Cheburet Chelugui's family claim they have not had any peace since the court ruled on the land case

- They urged retired president Moi to let them stay in peace saying all they want is their land back and not his money

- High Court in May 2019 directed the former president to compensate Chelugui for irregularly acquiring her land

An elderly woman who won a protracted legal battle against retired president Daniel Arap Moi over 53 acres parcel of land has not been leaving in peace since the landmark ruling was made in May 16, 2019.

The 85-year-old Susan Cheburet Chelugui reportedly abandoned home after High Court ordered the former president to pay her KSh 1.06 billion as compensation for grabbing her land, a directive that did not sit well with the Moi family.

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A report by Citizen TV on Saturday, June 8, confirmed Chelugui and members of her family started avoiding their own home fearing for their lives.

"In the Kenya of today, if you touch the big person you will be attacked at night or even during the day when walking around. So we are not even secure...we do not know where we will go now.

We do not know if we should go and stay in hotels in town yet there is no money, " her daughter Lillian Chelugui lamented.

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Chelugui's family claimed they have not been living in peace since the court ruling and urged the retired head of state to let them stay in peace with the granny saying all she needs is her land back and that she is not interested in money.

"I am not after money, people love money but for me I don not love money. What I want my land so Ii can leave it to my children," a worried Chelugui said in Swahili.

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The court had ruled that Moi illegally acquired the land belonging to Chelugui and sold it to another family.

Rai Plywood Limited has been on the controversial plot since 2007 and has been using it to grow wheat.

"Acquisition of the said properties by the first and second respondents were arbitrary unconstitutional, irregular, unprocedural, tainted, a nullity ab initio and therefore not worthy of any constitutional protection,” judge Judge Anthony Ombwayo ruled.

Unhappy with the ruling, the Moi family is expected to challenge the High Court decision.

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