The court has summoned the Principal Registrar of Persons in a case where two families are battling over land worth 30 acres of prime peace in Uasin Gishu County.
Eldoret court Justice Robert Wananda directed that the government official should appear before him without failure on July 21 due to the two conflicting death certificates presented before him on a land ownership dispute.
The senior government official will unveil who between the late Philip Cherono and the late Paul Kibet is the owner of the disputed land.
Both parties associated with the case presented two conflicting death certificates in court during the hearing of the case.
The court therefore noted that the documents had variations in names and differences in the year of death of the said original owner of the agricultural land that is located in the Kaptagat settlement scheme in Ainabkoi sub-county.
According to the family of the late Philip Cherono, their father died in 1976 as indicated in the death certificate they presented before court.
Abraham Chebii, a senior driver with the Judicial Service Commission on the other hand told the court that his father Paul Cherono died in 1997 as indicated in the death certificate he availed in court.
The two families have been seeking justice since the deceased person passed away.
