[Source: The Standard, by Renson Mnyamwezi]
Squatters living on the vast Voi Point Limited land have vowed to resist attempts by the management to evict them from what they termed their ancestral land.
About 3,000 squatters told the Senate Committee on Lands that the management of the farm had been using police to harass and intimidate them.
The Senate committee, chaired by Nyandarua Senator Mwangi Githiomi, was accompanied by Nominated Senator Victor Pringei (vice chairman) and Taita-Taveta Senator Jones Mwaruma. “Police have been using excessive force on us. We have no one to turn to,” Ibrahim Keya, 95, told the committee yesterday.
Some of the squatters told the committee the management had evicted them without a notice and that they were also not allowed to protect graves of their forefathers.
They accused the Voi Lands Control Board of approving sub-division of the more than 4,860 acres without involvement of the squatters who had been living on the land since time immemorial.
[Full article: The Standard, by Renson Mnyamwezi]
