[Source: The Standard, by Daniel Chege]
The National Land Commission (NLC) has agreed to compensate some 10,000 squatters who have been denied access to 86,000 acres of land in Mau Narok for 24 years.
After a year’s court battle between the commission and members of Kalimbula Investment Squatters, parties agreed to a mediated agreement yesterday.
Deputy Registrar of the High Court Margaret Kyalo directed that the case be placed before the trial judge Justice Rachel Ng’etich for further orders.
According to the plaintiffs’ attorney John Githui, the commission, which is the first defendant in the case, has agreed to compensate the squatters.
The squatters had moved to court in 2011 and sued NLC and the Attorney General (AG), claiming that they were never allocated the land despite paying for it.
According to the suit papers, the plaintiffs applied to be allocated land in Mau Narok, measuring 86,380 acres on October 1993.
The complaints claim that even after the acquired parcels had been de-gazetted as forest land before the allocation, the defendants refused to complete the allocation process.
[Full article: The Standard, by Daniel Chege]
