The High Court Rules: Parents Can Freely Sell Their Land Without Seeking Consent From Their Children
Recently, Justice Munyao Sila of the Environmental and Land Court made a landmark judgement in Oganga & another v Orangi & 3 others (Environment & Land Case 466 of 2015) [2023] KEELC 16348 (KLR) (22 March 2023), granting parents the liberty to sell their land or property without consulting their children. This precedent-setting judgment ended an eight-year protracted land dispute pitting a parent and two buyers on one side and his two sons on the other.