Court orders payout as 1,500 acres of land for military use declared unlawful

A military helicopter, chopper, prepares to land next to a packed amoured military tank at Kapedo after a mid day operation at Silale hills on November. the soldiers are in the area to flush out bandits who killed over 20 GSU police officers.4,2014.[FILE]

The High Court has ruled that the allocation of over 1,500 acres of land by the Ministry of Interior for military bases in Turkana County was unlawful.

In a judgment delivered by Justice Kossy Bor, the court declared that the land had been allocated to the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) without following proper legal processes or consulting the affected Turkana community in February 2021.