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The dangers of buying illegally acquired property

A couple buying a house. (Courtesy/iStock)

There is a property that we intend to buy as an investment group in Nairobi. We undertook our own necessary due diligence and were ready to pay the deposit when our lawyer raised concerns that it sits on grabbed land. Can we proceed to buy the property as many buildings in the city are either on grabbed land or irregularly acquired property but have never been reclaimed nor recovered since independence?

Harry, Nairobi.

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