As Muslims celebrates Idd-ul-Fitr after a month of fasting, a section of Muslims are in agony following Mombasa court declaration which saw hundreds of houses, mosques, churches, and schools face demolition.
During its ruling, the court declared that the contested 300 acres inhabited by the area residents belong to a posh hotel situated in Diani Beach.
More than 700 residents with title deeds to prove ownership of the disputed land staged protests against the ruling, lamenting that they were not given a chance to defend their property.
Leisure Lodge Hotel went to court to challenge the government’s decision to settle landless citizens on the land.
The residents now claim the land rightly belongs to them following an intriguing revelation from their spokesperson.
“We exchanged our land with Leisure Lodge. We gave the hotel our 93 acres at the beach to build a golf course and it gave us 300 acres,” stated the residents’ spokesperson Shee Mwamindi.
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Mr. Mwamindi also stated that the case was between the hotel owner and the State and that they were not involved.