Time for Mazrui Trust to surrender ill-gotten land to rightful owners

How often have you heard administrators, politicians and even presidents tell you that they are going to solve the land problem in Kenya? Does anyone believe them anymore? We have half a dozen commission reports on the land question gathering dust, only accessed by foreigners or academics writing their theses. We are not short of documentation or recommendations. What we are missing is honesty, sincerity and commitment from the political class and aggressive activism from the dispossessed victims.

Politicians exhaustively talk about fighting corruption, but how many of them acknowledge that the rot in public life and the looting of the coffers have their genesis in the theft of public land. Generations of politicians since independence have gotten rich by grabbing land, and Mr Kenyatta knows that only too well. The thieves only turned to stealing from parastatals and ministries when the land bank dried up.