RULING OF THE COURT
In a plaint filed at the Environment and Land Court of Kenya at Nyahururu being E.L.C. Case No. 353 of 2017, the applicants herein, Joseph Wainaina Kinyanjui and Herman Kinyanjui, sued the respondent, Kenya National Highways Authority, where it was claimed amongst other things that the 1st applicant Joseph Wainaina Kinyanjui was registered as the absolute proprietor of a parcel of land known as Land Parcel No. Laikipia/Nyahururu/5970 measuring 0.048 hectares or thereabouts situated at Losogwa Village, Nyahururu in Laikipia County. It was alleged that the 1st applicant purchased that land in 2002 and that the 2nd applicant Herman Kinyanjui took possession of that land and occupied it. Further that the 2nd applicant with the assistance of his son the 1st applicant had developed the land extensively by constructing a permanent stone building on the land and carried out various other developments on the land. Further, that on the 28th of January, 2016, the respondent ha…