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From wealthy landowners to landlessness and despair

Some of the Kajiado residents, both the aged and youths. PHOTO BY NANJINIA WAMUSWA

Lekishon Sankara sits on an old bench overlooking the Nairobi-Namanga road, outside a shop at Bissil shopping centre in Kajiado County. Vehicles zooming past do not seem to startle him out of his deep continuous thoughts.

The tired and weary looking 65-year-old man was once wealthy with over 2,000 livestock and 300 acres of land. Today, he is left with only 20 goats, and without any piece of land.

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