Taveta businessman and politician Basil Criticos has lost 3,000 acres of land as the county government works with land surveyors on demarcation.
Machungwani Farm, which the National Land Commission reverted to the county after the end of its 99-year lease in 2004, will be used to settle over 5,000 squatters who claim it is their ancestral land, and have been living on it for decades.