After a 15-year legal battle, a Nairobi man has lost his bid to claim a share of his late grandfather’s property from his uncle. The Court of Appeal upheld a High Court decision, granting full ownership of the disputed land to his uncle.

• The land in dispute is Dagoretti/Uthiru/38, originally belonging to James Magua Ngando who died in 1963.
• The appellant, Kenneth Kaburu Kimani, sought to overturn a 2019 ruling by Justice Lydia Achode.
• The court dismissed claims of his father, Leonard James Kimani, suffering from amnesia when signing consent in 2009 due to lack of medical evidence.
• The judges noted Mugwe Magua, the uncle, had been in “exclusive and undisturbed occupation” of the property since 1969.