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MPs raise concerns over state plans to excise Mt Elgon Forest land

Lands, Housing and Urban Development Cabinet Secretary Farida Karoney during the vetting by the National Assembly Committee on Appointment on Thursday 08/02/18. [Boniface Okendo,Standard]

MPs have opposed a plan to hive off thousands of acres from Mt Elgon forest to resettle squatters. 

Lands Cabinet Secretary Farida Karoney, who appeared before a joint House team on environment and natural resources and lands to defend a petition seeking to de-gazzete 11,384.127 acres of land, had a hard time convincing the lawmakers who said it would set bad precedent.

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