This archive report was first published on 8 September 2019.
On September 8, 2019, the High Court in Kenya ruled in favor of 75-year-old Rispa Ong'onga in a six-year court battle over a disputed piece of land in Busia town.
The land, measuring 0.25 hectares, was registered in the name of Andrea Ong'onga, the father-in-law of the plaintiff's late husbands, who died in 1983.
Beatrice Wanga and Anne Oloo, the daughters-in-law of Rispa's co-wife, had accused her of fraudulently disinheriting their late husbands' estates of the ancestral property.
Rispa, however, told the court that the plaintiffs were not her children and therefore not entitled to the property.
Justice Antony Kaniaru dismissed the case, stating that the plaintiffs did not prove their case to the standard required for proof of fraud.
The multi-million prime land currently has rental houses and commercial premises constructed on it.
