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The public exchanges between the Government and the Opposition on the disputed ownership of 134 acres of prime land in Karen is threatening to politicise an issue already before the court and clouding the rights of the litigants to a fair trial. Last week, President Uhuru Kenyatta waded into the debate when he accused the Opposition of trying to tarnish the image of his government when it claimed that senior Jubilee luminaries had fraudulently acquired this prime parcel at the centre of a litigation process for years.
The President raised a valid point—using an emotive issue such as the Karen dispute to win sympathy and support can be counter-productive when viewed against the violence and pain heated land issues have triggered in Kenya.
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