Amend law allowing squatters to take over land after 12 years

The law of adverse possession has facilitated dispossession of many landowners in many parts of the country, especially at the coast. [iStockphoto]

In the last one month Kenyans have been treated to endless political drama over the inheritance law which supposedly exempted founding fathers of the Republic from paying taxes.

Despite the political posturing, it now turns out that all the acrimony was a lot of hot air because the inheritance law was repealed in 1982.