Murimi Mutiga @PeopleDailyKe
Squatters on the controversial Waitiki land in Likoni will have to wait until Saturday to get title deeds as the ceremony was postponed to then. The event, to be presided over by President Uhuru Kenyatta was cancelled early yesterday over “unforeseen circumstances”.
Uhuru met ministry of Lands Cabinet Secretary Jacob Kaimenyi, area MP Masoud Mwahima and the National Land Commission (NLC) officials at State House Mombasa on Monday and was expected to issue some of the tittle deeds yesterday.
The ceremony will now be held at the Caltex grounds on Saturday. Issuance of the tittle deeds will mark an end to the 930 acre land ownership tussle between Evanson Waitiki and a section of the Likoni residents who invaded his farm following the Kaya Bombo clashes in 1997.
Mwahima who is an ODM legislator also refuted claims he was planning to decamp to Jubilee during the ceremony. “Those who claim that I have defected are enemies of development. I am working with the government because I want development for my people,” he said.
The government entered into a compensation agreement with Waitiki to end the 18 year-old litigation processes.
Waitiki, who bought the land in 1975 at a cost of about Sh1.2 million, surrendered it to the government to allow for its sub-division among the squatters. The land is valued at Sh9.3 billion.
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