A Nyandarua cleric was yesterday thrown out of his home in Rwanyambo village, Kinangop, following a court order.<\/p>\n
Fredrick Wang\u2019ombe, the Archbishop of the Africa Independent Pentecostal Church (AIPCA), was evicted by armed youth backed by police.Several houses were demolished during the eviction.The eviction order was made by the Environmental Court sitting in Nyahururu.<\/p>\n
According to the court order, the bishop\u2019s family was occupying a disputed parcel of land \u2014 a farm measuring 22 acres.Mr Wang\u2019ombe had been fined Sh100,000 or two months in jail after failing to move out of the land in a separate case.\u00a0\u00a0During yesterday\u2019s eviction, a church built by the cleric was spared. A few people who had settled near the church were asked to move their belongings.<\/p>\n
According to Daniel Wang\u2019ondu, whose father Ayub Wang\u2019ondu had laid claim to the land, the dispute started in 1985.That is when the Archbishop and a few other individuals, Daniel said, encroached on the land owned by his father.<\/p>\n
Daniel explained that his family had gone to various courts before the High Court finally ordered Wang\u2019ombe\u2019s family to vacate the land.\u201cThey (Wang\u2019ombe\u2019s family) first ignored an initial court order and were fined Sh100,000 for contempt of court,\u201d said Daniel.\u201cThis time, police were ordered to provide security as the eviction was being carried out.\u201d<\/p>\n
Granted justice<\/strong><\/p>\n Daniel who was present as the eviction went on, thanked the Judiciary for giving his family justice.<\/p>\n He said they had undergone untold sufferings.\u201cWe are grateful that justice has finally been served after years of waiting patiently. We can now move into our land,\u201d he said.Daniel added that they decided not to demolish the church after reckoning that the faithful who worshiped there can be engaged before a final decision is made.\u201cWe had given the Wang\u2019ombe\u2019s family time to move out their personal belongings peacefully but they rejected the offer,\u201d Daniel said.\u201cWe had no option but to move in forcibly,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n One of Wang\u2019ombe\u2019s kin who was affected by the eviction said his family will seek legal redress at the Court of Appeal, adding that the move was unfair.He said the eviction order was flawed.\u201cWe have known this place to be our only home for years,\u201d he said.\u201cWe will definitely appeal this judgement that has rendered us homeless.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Nyandarua cleric was yesterday thrown out of his home in Rwanyambo village, Kinangop, following a court order. Fredrick Wang\u2019ombe, the Archbishop of the Africa Independent Pentecostal Church (AIPCA), was evicted by armed youth backed by police.Several houses were demolished during the eviction.The eviction order was made by the Environmental Court sitting in Nyahururu. According […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":3204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,8],"tags":[1734,1111,1735],"class_list":["post-3203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-homepage-english","tag-aipca","tag-nyandarua","tag-rwanyambo-village"],"yoast_head":"\n