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Northlands invasion exposes the ever-emotive land question, again

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Intruders who invaded former President Uhuru Kenyatta's family expansive Northlands farm land located along the Eastern Bypass on March 27, 2023. [Silas Otieno, Standard]

The struggle for independence was a fight to repossess land. In sixty years of home rule, however, the best of that land has been possessed by successive ruling elites.

More than a million acres are in the hands of families of former presidents and probably even more occupied by their cronies and henchmen who preserved their power bases. Every effort at land justice and redistribution has been thwarted over the years.

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