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Maasai keen to get back their land

It is unfortunate that acting Lands Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i threatened the Maasai during his recent fact-finding mission to Laikipia. He branded the Maasai illegal squatters and sought to sanitise the real land grabbers with irregularly acquired title deeds as land owners.

Knowing too well the background against which these land documents were acquired, Mr Matiang’i punctuated his hollow rhetoric with the line that the Government will defend the sanctity of the title deed.

Sanctity of title deeds is derived on the due process through which they were issued. Therefore if the process was questionable, and indeed it was for the land in Laikipia, then not even an executive decree or court ruling will stop the people from demanding for justice.

What the CS perhaps needs to know is that the struggle by the Maasai to get justice for the land that was taken away from them through issuance of title deeds is still on. The good thing about land is that it cannot be carried away or consumed and this gives victims all the time they need through regime and generational change to search for justice.