Find a way of taming Kenyans' insatiable greed for land

A security team led by Njoro Sub-County DCC Mokin Ptangu was deployed to the disputed 4,296-acre Muthera Farm in Mau Narok, Njoro, on March 25, 2025, following violent clashes between rival groups claiming ownership of the land. [Kipsang Joseph, Standard]

Greed, if you ask me, is not knowing when to stop wanting more because you already have enough. Greed can also be defined as an extreme desire to acquire and possess more than one needs, especially with respect to material wealth. This incessant desire advances into an overwhelming urge of wanting to have something so badly that it quickly ceases to be a desire anymore and becomes a destructive ingredient that will have one do just about anything to possess whatever they want. As to whether we have good greed and bad greed, all fall within the bracket of wanting more than you need, which is already wrong to begin with. What is so complex with being content with what you have?

How would life be, especially in our country, if we all decided to be content with just what is necessary. Life to mankind outside of greed would be much better. Greed is what comes to our minds when we think about land and the mysteries surrounding it. I firmly call it a mystery as it is highly emotive and has become that one thing that will so easily break strong family ties while causing cracks between siblings, parents and the list is endless.