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Category : Land
Lack of Land Said to Breed Conflict The Standard, Pg 29
Tuesday, 04 Oct 2011

Unresolved land tenure issues and lack of mining rights among others remain major thorny issues standing in the way of development. Local leaders want the issues resolved before the next general elections to avoid conflicts in the area.

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State Seeks to Take over Land from Foreigners Daily Nation, Pg 1 & 6
Tuesday, 04 Oct 2011

Foreigners owning huge tracts of land, whose lease is about to expire are likely to lose their assets as the government starts enforcing the law on land ownership. The move will affect multinationals and individuals with tea, sisal and coffee . Lands minister James Orengo said they are working on

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Athi River Brewing Land Recipe for Chaos The Standard, Pg 15
Wednesday, 05 Oct 2011

Pravin Bowry asserts that the trend in which individuals and groups are taking the law into their hands and unilaterally allocating and alienating registered parcels of lands to third parties is alarming. Landowners in Athi River area are witnessing these scenarios yet the constitution guarantees

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Military Land Grabbed by Private Developers The Standard, Pg 21
Wednesday, 05 Oct 2011

Lands minister James Orengo has revealed that huge chunks of land belonging to the military have either been provately acquired or encroached. He told the Parliamentary Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations that arge portions of land owned by the army in Embakasi, Kren, Eldoret and Archers p

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Kisumu Lands Office Getting Computerised The Star, Pg 19
Friday, 30 Sep 2011

Lands minister James Orengo said the computerisation of Kisumu Lands office is near complete. He said the project is also targetting land registries in Mombasa, Eldoret, Nakuru, Narok and Thika and will help minimise corruption in the offices.

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NGO Wants Seat in Land Committee The Star, Pg 16
Sunday, 30 Oct 2011

The Land Development and Governance Institute has asked for representation of all stakeholders in drafting new land laws as spelled out in the constitution. The Institute Director Ibrahim Mwathane said land issues have been with Kenyans since pre-independence days and that participation should be

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Simmering Row over Land Ownership The Standard, Pg 24
Wednesday, 28 Sep 2011

A row is simmering between youth and an Italian investor building a Sh300 million hotel on land allegedly meant to be a football ground at Blue Lagoon in Watamu Tourist Resort, Malindi District. The youth group has issued the investor Mr. Saputo Tranquilo Carlo a five ultimatum to pull down all s

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State Agencies Accused of Taking Ancenstral Land The Standard, Pg 24
Wednesday, 28 Sep 2011

Members of the Isahakia and Maasai communities accused the government of taking their ancestral land. According to the Chairman Ali Farah, they were among the first communities to arrive in Naivasha in 1852 but the government starting the colonial government have been taking the land from them. T

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