By Mbaraka Abucheri & Urban Shihemi. July 3, 2025. The case filed by two individuals against the trustees of Kagio Jamia Mosque following land dispute failed to take off as scheduled. The case had been scheduled for mention on Monday 30th June, 2025 at the Environment and Land Court at Kerugoya Law Courts in Kirinyaga County. The case has been fixed for mention on 23rd September, 2025 at the same court in Kerugoya. The case was filed on May 29, 2025 by Joseph Nduki and Virginia Njogu through C.S Macharia and Company Advocates. Registered Trustees of Kagio Jamia Mosque have been named as the defendants in the law suit. The land in dispute is a mosque land that was allocated to the Muslim community in 1976 and the allotment letter issued in 1985. Currently the land situated in Kagio town within Kirinyaga County hosts a mosque and a school. A wave of land disputes and organized land grabbing targeting Muslim institutions in Mount Kenya region has sparked fear of religious intolerance highlighting the ongoing issue of land grabbing and its impact on public institutions.
