A family in Busia County is crying for justice after their relative descended on a section of their land and destroyed property worth Sh1.2 million there.
A case was reported at Mauko police station, Butula sub county on various dates between 2021 and 2024 where two motorbikes, solar panels, water tank, iron sheets among other properties were destroyed.
The case was reported by Obondi Owoko aged 89 years.
The old man stated that his paternal nephew had invaded his land after selling almost the whole of his three acres land.
The complainant claimed that the accused relative has protection from a senior government official from the area whom he sold part of his land.
Owoko disclosed that his problems have been made worse by the accused relative who claims to be getting protection from a County Commissioner.
Owoko claimed that on the day that the destruction was done , the accused man came with his friends among them goons who attacked him and slashed him with a machete on the head and destroyedv property in the homestead worth over Sh1.2 million.
“He boasts that the law can’t do anything to him and I am appealing to courts to speed up the case,” he said.
To make the matters worse the old man continue to complain that his nephew who sold part of his land boasts none can touch him.
Two weeks ago the 89 years old man claimed that a group invaded his residence and set free his cows and later led them to where he has planted maize for them to feed on them and claim compensation.
He said that after they consumed a fraction of planted maize they rushed to the local police station to report and demanded to be paid Sh10,000 for the alleged maize that the cows ate.
The old man has so far asked police intervention against harassment and threats from his relatives claiming he is fearing for his life.
By Collins Wanzallah