Nakuru Governor Susan Kihika has abandoned plans to settle granny's bail money after investigating a case that got the 75-year-old behind bars for one month.
In a statement on Thursday, October 13, Kihika announced that she would withdraw her support after unearthing conflicting facts touching on the case.
According to the governor, she had sent her lawyer to help the 75-year-old as earlier promised but opted to bail out when she discovered that the granny was behind bars over contempt of court and not matters relating to the land dispute.
"We sent a lawyer to the Nyahururu courts yesterday but unfortunately the facts are not as they appear. Without getting into the details it is fair to say it’s a dispute that has been running since the 1960s. Though like all of you I felt a lot of sympathy for her due to her advanced age, the facts are not as they were narrated."
"The Granny and her family are in jail not on the land issue, but for contempt in the face of the Court. The facts are quite bad, I therefore sadly withdraw as my intention was to help what appeared to be a helpless widow only for the reality to be different," she explained.
On Wednesday, Kihika had vowed to settle the granny's Ksh200,000 bail money and offer legal services to her.
She had been touched by a viral video that depicted the granny in a sorry state with children placed in custody.
"Oh my goodness, where is this? Is she still being detained? I am willing to send a lawyer to her and her sons and help pay any required bail, this is not right," the governor decried.
In the clip, the 75-year-old expressed concerns over the well-being of the children she left behind in the house, who she argued were stranded with no adult to fend for them.
"I have the original title deed of the land which I got in 1974. My home has been left with no one and we have other kids there who I pay for their fees. There's no one to take care of them," she pleaded.
The granny has been in a protracted land battle with her relatives who claim that she trespassed on their land.
The granny, however, maintained that she holds legal ownership of the parcel.
