Families resettled in forests face eviction

Environment CS Keriako Tobiko with National Land Commission acting chairperson Abigael Mbagaya and Commissioner Clement Lenashura during a Forest Carbon partnership Facility project meeting at the Great Rift Valley Lodge in Naivasha. [Antony Gitonga, Standard]

Thousands of families who were resettled in forest land by past governments could be evicted after the National Land Commission (NLC) termed the process of acquiring the land as illegal.

The commission says that parliament did not de-gazette the land as per the law before the squatters who lived in various settlement schemes mainly in Central Kenya were resettled.