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Land, family, child support rows most common in Kenya
Police arrive to stop members of Sirikwa Group Squatters from building structures on a farm they were in dispute with the late Mark Too in Uasin Gishu County on November 19, 2022, after the Court of Appeal upheld a ruling by the High Court in favour of the squatters to take over 25,000 acres land. PHOTO | JARED NYATAYA | NMG
Land, spousal and close family disputes, child custody, and support – make up the majority (87 percent) of disputes in Kenyan communities.
At 30 percent, land makes up for the largest percentage of matters under dispute in Kenya, followed by 23 percent involving partner and spouse, and 13 percent were child-related a Kenyan study conducted by the Katiba Institute and the University of Nairobi, as part of the Community-Based Justice Research (CBJR) Project shows.
