A Machakos senior lawyer Kyatha Mbaluka has advised parents in the county to allocate their property to their children while still alive in order to avoid succession disputes in the family which have occasionally led to murder among siblings.

Mbaluka (pictured), a former Machakos senatorial seat aspirant said cases of murder which have been traced to succession disputes have been on the increase in the recent past adding that such deaths could have been avoided had parents divided their properties amongst their children.

Selling inheritance

“If parents do not do succession in the right way, we will be left trying to solve murder cases which would have been avoided,” he stated.

In the recent past, various leaders in Machakos county have raised alarm on a growing trend in the area where young people sell their inheritance cheaply.

The trend has discouraged many parents from dividing their property among their children, said the lawyer.

He also asked Machakos Lands office to stop approving land transactions involving young people unless they give convincing reasons.

Mbaluka said many young people are disposing of land inherited from their parents cheaply and end up landless.

‘“I am warning young people against selling their land inherited at throw away prices because selling land for short term gains will not get them out of poverty, the way out of poverty is to invest in land,” he added.

He advised the county government to educate residents on how to make good use of their land and come up with policies to save its residents from land   cartels.

If parents do not do succession in the right way, we will be left trying to solve murder cases which would have been avoided.