BOOM! 500,000 Acres Repossessed. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Whenever Jubilee Alliance wants to propagate a lie, they detour back to the Grand Coalition Government and apportion blame to those in the current opposition which served then. Take for example yesterdays breakthrough in the puzzle thats #Lamu County. A title worth 500,000 Acres of land was allegedly revoked. This was followed by the statement that these lands were acquired specifically for speculation purposes targeting the lapsset project project. To tie this illegal acquisition - or grabbing - and blame the current crisis in Lamu for it, an angle was added to it; thus, 500,000 acres of public land which translates to 70 per cent of land available for settlement was allocated under dubious and corrupt circumstances. If the claim is that this grabbed land - 70 per cent of it - is public land, question is, how then can it be available for settlement? Even more egregious, can it be true that up until 2011 70 percent of land that had all along been available for settlement was still idle and unused. We all should believe the President, thats if he is not lying. Is he? The other way you can look at the Presidents statement is to sum up its disjointed parts. It will be something like 500,000 Acres of PUBLIC LAND available for SETTLEMENT was GRABBED in a year (between 2010 and 2012). Was this land available for settlement? Assuming it is, or will be successfully repossed by the Jubilee government, will it be available for settlement? Remember, the president did not promise so yesterday. Two difficulties arise in comprehending the presidents yesterday message. One, the message only talks about the size of the land and the number of entities - twenty-two - which own it illegally, as they acquired it dubiously and corruptly, which is untenable and unacceptable. “This level of impunity revealed by the audit is unprecedented, untenable and unacceptable, Uhuru said, The Star wrote today in their lead story titled, Uhuru Recovers 500,000 Acres of Lamu Land. The other difficulty is that the reason given for this revocation appear to be that locals (all locals) will be resettled on it. “Many thousands of families living in this county occupy only 30 per cent for their dwelling and agriculture, the President said jana nyt. Will these thousands of families be resettled on this recovered land? Public land? I am not sure. Between 2010-2012, Orengo revoked THOUSANDS of illegal title deeds, many which belonged to to top PNU politicians and powerful state wheeler dealers. A story in Daily Nation under the title Govt revokes 345 irregular land titles (8/12/2010) and The Star Title deeds revoked within Lamu Port site adds credence to this claim. You will notice that to exaggerate their yesterday breakthrough, the Jubilee government is magnifying the land size but has been very silent on the number of title deeds. Also, wasnt it weird to call in other agencies to investigate this criminal conspiracy (sic) with the view of arresting and prosecuting those culpable? I thought 22 entities had been found (guilty)? If you think the revocation is as easy as calling a presser in the wee hours of the night, ask James Orengo. Wait for the court battles. Remember, this is part of what speculators who grabbed these lands expected - potential government compensation. In 2011, when these grabbing sprees were going on, minister Orengo had to protest through a letter to the Attorney General that the courts were quashing his land revocations and riveting the titles back to their illegal owners at an alarming speed. Following the revocations a number of aggrieved parties have moved to court and obtained orders quashing the revocations. . .the speed at which these cases are being heard and determined taking into account how slowly the wheels of justice have been grinding on other matters is a mat
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