Nairobi, Dec. 8 -- Kenya Power has been ordered to pay a Nyeri couple Sh20 million in damages after the Environment and Land Court found the utility firm guilty of trespassing and erecting high-voltage power lines on their private land without consent.

The judgment concluded a legal dispute that began in 2021, when the couple sued the electricity distributor over their land parcel in the Mweiga/Thungari area.

The couple purchased the property in 2012 intending to construct executive and affordable residential houses, but the project was allegedly frustrated by the utility firm's actions.

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They told the court that they were finalising architectural drawings in 2014 when workers...