Plantations still have a place in Kenya

wwMurang’a residents want a piece of Kakuzi plantation. Rift Valley residents want a piece of tea plantations and Laikipia residents want some ranches.  Taita residents want a piece of expansive estates. The list can be longer.

The appetite for such land has always been there. It was whetted by the 2010 constitution which reduced leases from 999 years to 99 years. Locals led by their leaders saw this as an opportunity to get back the land they say current owners got from them when the country became a protectorate in 1895.