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State to seize 77,000 acres of unclaimed land

NLC Chairman Mohammad Swazuri. The commission plans to start seizing all unclaimed land

NAIROBI, KENYA: The state has announced plans to nationalise thousands of acres of land owned by absentee landlords in Coast after they failed to identify themselves or prove ownership before the National Land Commission NLC.

In 2015 NLC ordered absentee landlords to register and prove ownership of the huge swathes of land they own in Coast where landlessness and the squatter problem is most acute in Kenya. Most failed to show up and the order was extended twice but still not honoured heightening the mystery of who owns these huge land tracts.

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