Veteran politician Jackson Kibor is being investigated for shooting three times at his son
at their farm near Eldoret.
The son, Ezekiel Kibor, said the gun jammed after his father missed him by a whisker in the incident last Wednesday.
A video believed to be of the shooting, as recorded on phone by a Kabenes area resident, has been circulating on social media.
Kibor is seen shooting while moving closer to
Ezekiel, who then ducks and escapes from the area.
He is said to have opened fire after finding his son supervising work on the farm. The work was being done on a 200-acre piece of land that is part of the Kabenes property under dispute.
“The portion of land where he found me is registered in my name and he knows it yet he doesn’t want me to use it," Ezekiel told the Star by phone.
“Were it not that the gun failed I would be dead because he fired directly at me with the intention to kill."
Ezekiel said he reported the incident at
Eldoret police station, OB No 74/3/3/17, but that officers have not taken any action.
“They seem to be reluctant. They told me to go away and that they would later call me
to record my statement," he said.
Kibor and his sons are embroiled in a land dispute which has seen him sue three of them.
The politician moved to court last year to bar the transfer of 1,250 acres to his sons, 20 years after the property was subdivided.
He has accused 20 parties, including his six sons,
of fraudulently sub-dividing and processing titles for his land (LR No. 8300 and 8301) measuring 1,547 acres.
“I am still the owner of the entire parcel which was illegally sub-divided and registered at Uasin Gishu County Land Registry as SOY/KAPSANG Block 10 (Samitoi)," he argues.
Kibor claimed his sons acquired the property illegally, consolidated the two parcels without following procedure and then sub-divided it and obtained titles that he said were invalid.
He also accused his sons of
continuing to trespass, encroach on and develop the land, neglecting an order from the District Land Registrar requiring them to vacate and surrender the invalid titles.
Uasin Gishu OCPD Joseph ole Kinne said the shooting was being investigated.
Kibor has also filed a divorce case against his second wife Josphine after 52 years of marriage.
He accused her of
cruelty, adultery and interfering with his 800-acre farm at Kipkabus, which he wanted to sell.
The man claimed Josephine put
a caveat on the land to stop the sale. The divorce case will be heard on March 2.
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