Six years after armed men allegedly ransacked homes in Mbwana B village during a family land dispute, a Bungoma court has acquitted the two surviving accused, finding that the prosecution never assembled the evidence needed to sustain its charges. Senior Principal Magistrate Joseph Maloba's ruling was not a verdict on what happened that September afternoon in 2020, but on what the state failed to prove — a distinction the law insists upon. The case becomes a quiet but pointed lesson in how justice depends not only on what occurred, but on whether those entrusted to demonstrate it fulfill their