[Source: The Standard, by James Omoro]
A group of elderly persons want an international research organisation to be evicted from their ancestral land for failing to compensate them.
The residents want the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE), which has operated in Homa Bay County for about 50 years, evicted from the land in Mbita town.
The more than 40 families from Usare clan have claimed ownership of the Kasgunga/Kamreri/2097 land occupied by ICIPE. The land is approximately 56 acres and serves as ICIPE’s Western Kenya headquarters.
The elders claim they surrendered the land to ICIPE on condition that they would be compensated for it later. But this has not happened 50 years down the line…
