I screamed while they did it to Lydia. After three months they managed to get bail, but were soon rearrested and back in remand. Jacqueline and her daughter eventually managed to get bail, but she continued to be brought before the courts every two weeks for two years. Her husband was charged in November 1993 with a capital offence, robbery with violence. He was found guilty after a seventeen-month trial and sentenced to four years with six strokes of the cane.
Land rights are in dispute all over Kenya.
Tribunals composed of elders, land holders and experts which were established in 1991 as the latest in a succession of measures attempting to take land disputes out of the courts are both subject to political influence and uncertain of their role. Since 1991, KANU has openly sought to create ethnically 'pure' homelands to strengthen its national support and control. In 1992, the ruling party actively stoked land disputes in the Rift Valley and in Western Kenya. The 'clashes' emerged out of a heritage of contradiction and confusion regarding land law, but they were fuelled by political engineering. One such place was Bungoma, widely regarded as an opposition zone.