Coast squatters await promised resettlement amid evictions

From left: Senate Speaker Amason Kingi, Sports CS Salim Mvurya and Mining CS Hassan Joho at a past function in Garsen, Tana River County. [Nehemiah Okwembah, Standard]

The Kenya Kwanza government has managed to sell the hope of rolling out a big land acquisition programme to formally resettle thousands of squatters across the Coast region yet, no parcels have been purchased to date.

With less than two years remaining in his first term, President William Ruto has yet to implement his land solution at the Coast, even as more squatters are either invading or being evicted from private farms in Mombasa, Kilifi, Kwale, and Taita Taveta counties.