By KNA
Squatters living in the disputed Kakuzi land in Murang’a County have been given hope of finally getting resettled after the National Lands Commission (NLC) visited the area to establish the company’s idle land that should be ceded to them.
The Historical Land Injustices Secretariat, led by Secretariat Head Edmond Gichuru, confirmed that several acres of unused land were owned by the company.
“The officials have toured the Kakuzi land and established that thousands of acres lie idle and that we expect, in their recommendations, they will force the company to cede the land to squatters. We have suffered a lot of historical injustices at the hands of the company, and we hope this will soon end,” Murigi said.
The Commission is now set to prepare determinations for all claims against the multinational agricultural firm. Residents now expect the NLC to recommend that Kakuzi cede 14,000 acres of land to the squatters.
Led by their Chairperson, Murigi Njogu, they said NLC has no choice since they have established that most of the company’s land lies idle, yet they continue suffering as squatters in their ancestral land.
The NLC will collaborate with local administrators to obtain an accurate list of those affected and avoid a repeat of past mistakes.
John Kamau