JUDGMENT
Chigamba Badi Chigamba, Juma Mdui, Japhet Muramba Mwatzuma the 1st to 3rd Appellants herein, where the plaintiffs in a suit filed in the Environment and Land Court (ELC) by way of an Originating Summons dated 23rd October 2006, together with the 5th to 9th Respondents herein, Njeru Ngao Kibetu, Patrick Nabiswa, Mary Kashi Hamisi, Hamisi Mohamed Thoya, and Daniel Baya Kayamba. The Appellants and their co-plaintiffs sued the 1st to 4th Respondents in the said suit, claiming that they were entitled by way of adverse possession to Plots Nos 1482/11/MN and 1483/11/MN (both originally known as plot 344/11/MN and hereinafter referred to as “the suit properties”) measuring 433.42 acres, which were registered in the 1st to 4th Respondents’ names. The Appellants claimed to have been in open and uninterrupted possession of the said properties for over 20 years, developed the said parcels of land, and were thus entitled to have the land registered in their names. The Originating Summons w…