Land Rights

My Land Stories

October 12, 2020

How my husband’s employer took advantage of our poverty to grab our land

In her late 60s, Joyce Oyugi envisioned a quiet sunset life. But this was never to be, as she lives a worried woman not sure of […]
October 12, 2020

Mystery of Chief’s Camp which has cost us land

In 1993, residents of Nyawara village in Rambula within Ugunja Sub County, tired of walking long distances to seek government services, sought to have a chief’s […]
October 12, 2020

I borrowed Sh19, 000 from my cousin, he turned me into a squatter in my land

When he was born in 1945, Joseph OtienoOmondi happened to be the only son to his father. Unfortunately, his father died when he was still young […]
October 12, 2020

I am too helpless to fight for my land from rich MCA

For Albert Muhoma, the thorn in his flesh is his immediate neighbor who has moved into his land and fenced off part of it under unclear […]
October 12, 2020

My only mistake was to give birth to all girls

At the heart of Udiri village in Ngunya Sub Location, Mama Florence Atieno is a worried mother. Her only mistake was to fail to get a […]
October 12, 2020

How Governor Rasanga took grabbed my one acre piece of land

Monica AnyangoAndiwo, 60, is a distressed woman. With her retired husband GedeonOtienoAbwanda now paralyzed, the mother of eight children is the key breadwinner for the family.Her […]
October 12, 2020

How my neighbor is compromising the authorities to disinherit me ancestral land

Fifty year old Jane Oonje is at the brink of losing almost half of her 2.8 ha piece of land at Nyapiedho village in North Sakwa, […]
October 12, 2020

I am waiting for eviction from my husband’s land

In 1982, a MrJosiaAbidha bought an acre piece of land at BondoTownship from a Mr Sure Apiyo.Apiyo who had no money to develop the land then […]
October 12, 2020

30 years after buying land, we have been denied rights to transfer it to our name

When MzeeMelkizedekOnditi married his second wife, Pamela Masitsa, he decided not to settle with her at the home of his first wife in Asembo, Rarieda Sub […]
October 12, 2020

My in-law wants me out of his land which he exchanged with mine

Josephine Atieno is the wife to the last born son in the family of Abong’oOsuri in Manga-Indhine village in Komenya-Kalaka Sub Location in Alego-Usonga Sub County. […]
October 12, 2020

How Rasanga is grabbing our lands through illegal boundary review

Luke Odhiambo, a retired secondary school teacher is at the brink of losing half an acre of his land.The resident of Abindu village, in Nyajuok claims […]
October 12, 2020

How my 15 acre parcel ended in the hands of Governor Rasanga

Forty-eight year old HellenAchiengAloo is a common figure at Ting’ Wang’I market centre in South Alego, Siaya County. Despite having over 15 acres of land at […]