Lamu residents decry evictions as KDF demolishes homes on disputed land

Residents of Kililana area in Lamu County stage a peace walk in Lamu island to protest unjust evictions from their land by the government to pave way for development projects. The residents through the umbrella Save Lamu organization claim that the national government was planning to evict them on a 70,000 hactare piece of land without their participation. [Nehemiah Okwembah/Standard]

Residents of the Kililana area in Lamu County, under the Kililana Farmers Association, have accused the national government of grabbing and evicting them from their ancestral land to put up development projects.

The residents held a peaceful protest in Lamu Island, where they demanded involvement in any development project coming their way and that they were opposed to their displacement without being heard.