Kirinyaga elders urge Uhuru to help end land dispute

Some of the squatters flushed from the troubled Mwea Trust Land last year. [Munene Kamau, Standard]

Elders have appealed to President Uhuru Kenyatta to intervene in a decades-old land ownership dispute. 

The elders drawn from Mihiriga Kenda (the nine clans) from Kirinyaga County yesterday said they expect the President to address the dispute when he opens the sixth devolution conference this morning.