State assures landowners in Coast of valid 1908 titles

Squatters living on land owned by Hussein Dairy Farm protest during a planned eviction by a private developer in March last year. [Gideon Maundu, Standard]

The owners of huge tracts of land at the Coast can now rest easy after a State body in charge of land declared that title deeds issued under the Land Ordinance Act of 1908 were legal and binding.

This is, however, a big blow to thousands of squatters who have been living on the expansive farms in the hope of finally getting resettled.