NLC urged to look at Mwea's land issue

Kirinyaga, Kenya: Residents of Kirinyaga county are up in arms demanding all grabbed public land in the area be repossessed at once.

They have particularly singled out the 200 acres set aside for the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI), situated at Mathangauta village in Mwea and some 50 more acres set aside for the same purpose at Murinduko village in the vast constituency.

Led by Mwea MP Peter Gitau, the locals want the National Land Commission (NLC) to address the Kirinyaga land issue simultaneously with that of Lamu county.

"Let NLC revoke titles for grabbed land otherwise residents are set to forcibly eject the grabbers," he said.