The land question in Kenya is controversial and has been blamed for violence in every electioneering period since 1992. The Kenyatta family is accused of owning huge tracks of Idle land in the Rift Valley and Coast province while many local/indigenous residents being landless squatters who suffer from perennial hunger due to their status as squatters
The former first family have no concrete answer as to the fate of squatters and the displaced people who have no where to go.
Journalist have put this question to the family in more than one occasion but at best they have chosen to ignore or evade the question.
In one instance Mama Ngina Kenyatta widow of Kenya’s first president when asked if the family would be willing to donate part of its vast estates to resettle internally displaced persons, she chose to keep her peace. She had visited an orphanage for Internally Displaced Persons in Naivasha where she donated food supplies and other non-food items. Deputy prime minister Uhuru Kenyatta the first born of Mama Ngina declined to comment further when he appeared on BBC’s hard talk in 2008.
james nyauma says
Can the kenyatta family give out any land to the idp?would he be different from his father?how can we kenyans trust him?.
Joel Joel says
never again shld it happen.
Joel Joel says
indeed it shld never ever happen
Peter Osora says
who
peter osora says
Please uhuru you had anough,this country belong to all kenyans.Your father and your mother grabbed anough for you.Go and enjoy
peter osora says
Anybody supporting uhuru muigai kenyatta to be the president will loose,except kikuyus
Eshichuma Imoh says
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Lambert Kweyu Nyangweso says
Thieves, and they call themselves wana-Jubilee!
kip kip says
stop propagating hate and ill motive to the peaceful people of kenya. What we need more is how we can love each other and not how others have tomented us. you can leave this to the courts of justice
George says
Kip, no one is propergating hate. Then why is it that we always have problems in Rift Valley and Coast every election? When we burry our heads in the sand hoping the issue of land will go away, it wont, instead those who are agrieved will always bring it up through their siblings even afteer they are gone. They will be asking hard questions about land, and that is even larger problem would come in.
James Nyanguru says
I do not know if the Kenyatta family will ever honestly answer this question.The I D P s issue is a wasted opportunity on the part of the Kenyatta family.If Uhuru could have seized the importunity , take IDPs irrespective of ethnic considerations and allocate them some land, it could have repaired some of the taints in the family.
Anonymous says
Someone here talks about says that Kenyans should love each other and I agree but love cannot exist where there is injustice..