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Taita Taveta squatters vow to stay put on disputed land

Senate Lands Committee Chairman Paul Githiomi Mwangi [Boniface Okendo,Standard]

Squatters living on the vast Voi Point Limited land have vowed to resist attempts by the management to evict them from what they termed their ancestral land.

About 3,000 squatters told the Senate Committee on Lands that the management of the farm had been using police to harass and intimidate them.

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