Nairobi, March 25 -- A judge has declined to strike out a case brought by an administrator of the estate of the late provincial commissioner Charles Karuga Koinange seeking to recover part of the land where upmarket Village Market mall and Tribe Hotel sit.

Justice Oscar Angote dismissed the application to strike out the case even as the three administrators of the estate could not agree whether the contested land forms part of the estate.

The Environment and Land Court judge said he needs to interrogate the matter further, because of the difference between Peter Mbiyu Koinange, Isabella Wanjiku Koinange and Samuel Karuga Koinange-who are the co-administrators of the estate.

"I say so because although the 3rd plaintiff (Samuel) has argu...