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CHRISTOPHER WAFULA MUTORO
V.
RICHARD LORDIA LOKERE

(2017) JELR 97573 (CA)

Court of Appeal 5 Oct 2017 Kenya
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Suit Number:Civil Appeal 71 of 2016
Judges:Erastus Mwaniki Githinji, Hannah Magondi Okwengu, Jamila Mohammed
Location:Eldoret
Other Citations:Christopher Wafula Mutoro v. Richard Lordia Lokere [2017] eKLR

JUDGMENT OF THE COURT

[1] This is an appeal from the ruling of the Environment and Land Court (ELC) whereby the ELC dismissed an application for review of the Court’s earlier ruling dated 14th October 2015.

[2] From the documents in the appeal record, the Kwanza Land Disputes Tribunal awarded parcels of land to Richard Lordia Lokere, the respondent herein and 14 other persons from the appellant’s land Title No. Kwanza/Kwanza Block 3/Luhya/52. The award of the tribunal was filed in the Chief Magistrate’s Court as Land Case No. 9 of 2011 and adopted as a judgment of the Court on 8th April, 2011.

[3] The appellant being dissatisfied with the decision of the tribunal filed an appeal in the Rift Valley Provincial Land Disputes Appeal Committee at Nakuru on 5th May, 2011. The appeal was given Serial Number 26 of 2011.

However, the Land Disputes Tribunal Act, No. 18 of 1990, which had given the Lands Disputes Tribunal jurisdiction to hear land disputes specified in Section 3 (1) of the Act was r…

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