In cells over land ownership disputes

...it is alleged that they were ready to beat up and injure the cultivators if they dared proceed with the tilling of the land by Khalwale James
Two elderly people alongside their sons who allegedly barred a neighbouring family from cultivating their plot over land ownership disputes yesterday appeared before a Kisumu court to answer the claims.
On the material day while armed with pangas spears and rungus and using a threatening language, it is alleged that they were ready to beat up and injure the cultivators if they dared proceed with the tilling of the land.

The two Mr Julius Moro and Samuel Anduga aged over 60s together with their sons  Vincent Omondi and Benard Odhiambo respectively were accused of jointly stopping Jack Apamo and others from cultivating the land of which they argued that a court order had been granted to stop the complainants from using.

Before principal magistrate Mr Muneeni Kimwele, they repeatedly wondered why these accusations were not taken up by the provincial administrators and lands offices in Nyando district of which the plaintiff said they had no faith in after the recurrence of the disputes year after another and that the lands office had given a letter to have the case tried in courts.

The alleged offence took place on February 6, 2010 in Kochogo village Nyando district. The court was told that the accused persons stopped a tractor that had been working on about nine acre piece of land confronting the driver before turning to the complainants who had been attracted by the noise.

The accused then shouted at them in a threatening language making them to retreat by asking the tractor's driver to proceed later when the dispute is contained.

The complainants claimed that they had invested a lot in the land on which they had grown sugarcane when the defendants sought a court order to bar the usage of the land in dispute registered as 731 and 732 which borders h 798 on which the defendants reside.
The accused asked for time to be able to provide relevant documents in court.