Hope for Coast squatters as State settlement plan takes off

From left: Kilifi Governor Gideon Mung'aro, Mining and Blue Economy CS Ali Hassan Joho and Senate Speaker Amason Kingi when they met Lands officials from six coastal counties to deliberate on resettlement of squatters, on December 22, 2024. [Nehemiah Okwembah, Standard].

The government resettlement plan for thousands of squatters who have occupied private land for decades has started in the six coastal counties.

Senate Speaker Amason Kingi, Cabinet Secretaries Hassan Joho and Salim Mvurya will spearhead the exercise under President William Ruto's one-million-acre scheme programme.