Kitale: Father tells 34-year-old son who sued him for land to use his skills as a mechanic to get himself one
Kitale Law Courts/TV47

Kitale: Father tells 34-year-old son who sued him for land to use his skills as a mechanic to get himself one

Father and son are in court over family land.

A 34-year-old man from Kitale in Trans Nzoia County has taken his father to court to compel him to share part of his inheritance.

Hillary Libese Sagala is accusing his father, Wycliffe Mgaira Sagala, for failing to educate him and now doesn’t want to share with him part of the family land.

According to TV47, in the affidavit filed at Kitale Chief Magistrate Court in Trans Nzoia County, Libese claims that his father married two wives and he was the only child of his mother, Rose Makokha, who was the first wife.

The second wife, Nancy Ngaira, had three children and according to Libese, his father has been selling small portions of the family land in Kaisagat, Kwanza Constituency, and is worried he will finish all of it.

“The purpose of this affidavit is to stop my father from selling the remaining farm because we will have nowhere to live. I got married in 2018 and I am blessed with two children, but I am still living on my grandmother’s land,” Libese’s affidavit read.

His father’s rejoinder claims that he never married Libese’s mother, although he agrees Libese is his son.

Mr. Ngaira says Libese’s mother married another man immediately she gave birth to him and that Libese is an ungrateful, bearing in mind that he sponsored his education until he graduated as a mechanic from Kaveye Youth Polytechnic.

“After completing the sentence in 2012 (he was once jailed after an altercation with goons), I allocated him 0.66 points of an acre at Kaisagat, where he built a house and planted trees. He has, however, sold the property.

“Now that he sold part of my land that I gave him, I do not have any other land to give him. I educated him until he became a mechanic and he should use his skills to buy his own land since he is not my only child,” Ngaira’s affidavit read.

Leave a Comment

Comments

No comments yet. Why don’t you start the discussion?

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *