Families demand pay for graves in airstrip project

Families living near Kakamega airstrip say there must be compensation for the graves to appease their forefathers. [Benjamin Sakwa, Standard]

A dusty road at Murhanda village separates Julius Livasa's mud house and the Kakamega airstrip. Livasa, like 80 other families living near the airstrip, has lived here for many years.

"In fact, my family sold part of our land to the government for the establishment of the facility. The graves of our forefathers lie where the airstrip exists today," he says.