When her husband died in 1982, Elizabeth Adega, then a young woman, fled her rural home in Kisumu's Nyando sub-county as the fight for their vast parcel of land set off.
When her husband died in 1982, Elizabeth Adega, then a young woman, fled her rural home in Kisumu's Nyando sub-county as the fight for their vast parcel of land set off.
Lawrence Apiyo, the lobby's coordinator, opines that the government has done little to protect widows and preserve their right to own land. The neighbour, a police officer, stormed the land with goons and extinguished a fire that was burning as per the customs to mark the onset of the construction. "At some point, he was given Sh30,000 for the land and was not paid in full, but given in bits to buy food, get medicine when he felt sick," she saysWithin the Obunga slum, Northeast of Kisumu City, Emily Akoth had to seek refuge in her local church after her in-laws ejected her from her house 6 years after burying her husband.
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