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A single mother of four children has sued her two brothers among them retired Mombasa Regional Police Commander Larrry Kiyeng over their late father Chepkieng Kimosop’s multi-million shillings estate.

The two, Thomas Chepkieng and Larry Kiyeng are the administrators of the disputed estate that includes a prime 32-acre piece of land in Keiyo North sub county, Elgeyo Marakwet county.

The deceased who died interstate, was a livestock and cereal farmer and left behind two widows and ten children.

Susan Chepkieng who is in her sixties, has accused her siblings of ganging up to exclude her from inheriting their late father’s property on the ground that she was not their biological sister.

She told Justice Reuben Nyakundi of Eldoret High Court that she has been squatting on government land in Iten town for more than three decades due to lack of a place to call home.

“I was forced to venture into the business of brewing and selling Chang’aa where I saved some money and bought a small plot in the outskirts of Iten town,” said Susan.

Disputed land

Susan stated her father gifted her small section of the disputed piece of land by way of an oral will before he passed away more than two decades ago.

She continued that the deceased then directed that the rest of land be shared equally among the other beneficiaries.

The administrators, she averred, have gone against their late father’s oral wish and denied her the right to benefit from his property despite the fact that she was one of the biological children of the deceased.

“My brothers who were given the grant to administer our late father’s estate have blocked me from the list of the beneficiaries on the grounds that I am not their biological sister,” she said.

Susan brought to the attention of the Judge that her efforts to resolve the succession dispute through mediation had hit a snag due to refusal by one of the administrator’s, Thomas Chepkieng, to attend meetings called to sort out their