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Deputy President William Ruto’s radical plan to buy off large swathes of land and to compulsorily acquire idle parcels to the benefit of landless people has jolted Coast politics.
In his bid to lock a big chunk of the region’s 1.8 million votes, Dr Ruto has inked a land deal with area leaders and set out to popularise it. Yesterday, Dr Ruto said he will reintroduce the 1963 “one-million-acre scheme” as well as the “Africanisation policy” to entice absentee landlords to relinquish their land to settle squatters.
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