Man asks court to protect him from ghost-buster’s kin

A man has asked the court to protect him from the family of a renowned ghost-buster in a dispute over land.

PN Mashru and the family of the late ghost buster, Mr Tsuma Kajiwe, who died 20 years ago, are embroiled in a tussle over land along the Mombasa-Nairobi highway.

Mr Kajiwe was a licensed ghost buster who exorcised demons from his patients under police guard.

The Environment and Land court in Mombasa had issued orders stopping Mr Kajiwe’s family from accessing the land, but the court heard that his family led by Mumba Kajiwe, Pepia Kajiwe and Mkauma Saha have been using violence to stop Mr Mashru from using the land.

“They have been chasing him away using batons and machetes,” Mr Mashru’s lawyer Michael Oloo said.

FAMILY WILL SUFFER

The lawyer said the police were reluctant to intervene in the matter after the Inspector General of Police David Kimaiyo asked his officers to avoid interfering in civil disputes without court orders.

The lawyer said his client would suffer irreparable losses if the Kajiwe’s were not stopped from interfering with the plot he intends to develop.

The Kajiwe’s asked the court to ignore the plea since the land belonged to their ancestors.

They told Justice Mukunya that they have nowhere else to go.

“The defendants will suffer should they be evicted from their ancestral land,” the ghost-buster’s lawyers told the firm. The family was represented by Asige, Keverege and Anyazwa .

The said P.N Mashru obtained title deed through a relative who defrauded them.

The three told the court that Mr Said Guro defrauded them of their ancestral land while they were minors and sold it to the transporter, a matter they argued is criminal in law.

The hearing continues.