Raila Urges Uhuru to Donate Family Land

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Prime Minister Raila Odinga Wednesday accused Jubilee leaders of being anti-reformers and urged the alliance’s flagbearer Uhuru Kenyatta to donate family land to squatters.

Speaking in West Pokot County, Cord leader Raila Odinga said he was the best candidate to steer the country as it went through a transition.

Addressing rallies at Kacheliba, Sigor, Chepareria and Kapenguria, Mr Odinga said Cord was committed to real reforms which would be realised by fully implementing the Constitution.

“I know that we did not deliver on most of our 2007 promises because we sharedpower but we luckily managed to spearhead constitutional reforms that gave birth to the new Constitution,” he told locals at Makutano stadium.

He claimed that if his opponents truly cared for the challenges that Kenyans face, then they should donate part of “their more than 500,000 acre land to IDPs and squatters.”

Mr Odinga further said his government would be on the forefront to solve the region’s economic woes which he blamed on marginalisation by past regimes.

He promised to ensure that the stalled Ortum cement factory project saw the light of the day in addition to offering credit facilities to empower the pastoral community.

The former Lang’ata MP also took issue with the Jubilee alliance, saying it had resorted to smear campaigns against him in a bid to water down his track record after realising he was the man to beat in the race to State House.

“For instance they are going around claiming that I have plans to evict locals from Lelan area. I don’t have such plans,” the ODM leader said.

Former Kangundo MP Johnstone Muthama warned Rift Valley voters that the land issue could not be wished away.

“Uhuru should be kind enough to donate the massive land to landless people if he is really for what his campaign manifesto stands for,” he said.

He also tore into Information minister Samuel Poghisio’s senatorial bid saying he was a non-performer as West Pokot does not have a good telephone network yet he was the minister in charge.

- Daily Nation

 

[Geza Ulole]

these r hard and bitter pills to swallow :-* ! No wonder he refused to take part in the 2nd debate! save ur face by giving back the land to the historical rightful owners cause i assure u, RAO will do that for u though by force when he occupies that Kilimani House!

 

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Prime Minister Raila Odinga Wednesday accused Jubilee leaders of being anti-reformers and urged the alliance's flagbearer Uhuru Kenyatta to donate family land to squatters.

Speaking in West Pokot County, Cord leader Raila Odinga said he was the best candidate to steer the country as it went through a transition.

Addressing rallies at Kacheliba, Sigor, Chepareria and Kapenguria, Mr Odinga said Cord was committed to real reforms which would be realised by fully implementing the Constitution.

"I know that we did not deliver on most of our 2007 promises because we sharedpower but we luckily managed to spearhead constitutional reforms that gave birth to the new Constitution," he told locals at Makutano stadium.

He claimed that if his opponents truly cared for the challenges that Kenyans face, then they should donate part of "their more than 500,000 acre land to IDPs and squatters."

Mr Odinga further said his government would be on the forefront to solve the region's economic woes which he blamed on marginalisation by past regimes.

He promised to ensure that the stalled Ortum cement factory project saw the light of the day in addition to offering credit facilities to empower the pastoral community.

The former Lang'ata MP also took issue with the Jubilee alliance, saying it had resorted to smear campaigns against him in a bid to water down his track record after realising he was the man to beat in the race to State House.

"For instance they are going around claiming that I have plans to evict locals from Lelan area. I don't have such plans," the ODM leader said.

Former Kangundo MP Johnstone Muthama warned Rift Valley voters that the land issue could not be wished away.

"Uhuru should be kind enough to donate the massive land to landless people if he is really for what his campaign manifesto stands for," he said.

He also tore into Information minister Samuel Poghisio's senatorial bid saying he was a non-performer as West Pokot does not have a good telephone network yet he was the minister in charge.

- Daily Nation

If Kenyan know truely what is the real problem facing them, land issue is the major problem and they have to resolve it, I don't know if they will vote for Kenyatta will be a solution or it will be naother era of accumulating more land and leaves marginalised people landless?

 

[Bamzi]

these r hard and bitter pills to swallow :-* ! No wonder he refused to take part in the 2nd debate! save ur face by giving back the land to the historical rightful owners cause i assure u, RAO will do that for u though by force when he occupies that Kilimani House!

Exactly the problem with corded guys.Making poor landless kenyans believe they will get free land taken from the wealthy folks.
Plus i have always wondered if kenyatta family possesses any land illegally.Coz if so they would be confronting court cases as is the case with moi.There is possibly no legal means of dispossessing uhuru his shambas.Hata huyo rao akiingia hawezi

 

[Geza Ulole]

Exactly the problem with corded guys.Making poor landless kenyans believe they will get free land taken from the wealthy folks.
Plus i have always wondered if kenyatta family possesses any land illegally.Coz if so they would be confronting court cases as is the case with moi.There is possibly no legal means of dispossessing uhuru his shambas.Hata huyo rao akiingia hawezi

Acha kujidanganya Moi is faced with court charges cause the time he grabbed land there was no more idle land whereas during Kenyatta era land was acquired from white settlers that where departing back to UK just before and immediately after independence. Though at that time no direct native owners could be linked directly to the land at disposal, the Lancaster agreements clearly stated the tribes that deserved the land according to what particular ethnicity the British displaced when arrived in Kenya! Mind u his actions contradict the same reason the Mau revolt fought for! Historically those lands he acquired from say Rift Valley, Taveta and Coast belonged to the ancestors of natives that were found there before the arrival of British and are well documented since most of the chiefs of these local kingdoms (including Kikuyus) were exploited and made to sign submission of their territories out of their illiteracy! Therefore legal implications can be charged against Kenyatta and his fellow Kikuyu inner cycle that benefited from this land allocation scheme and the new Kenya constitution clearly stipulates that to correct the historical injustices! And RAO is willing and ready to implement the new constitution...so sit back and watch!

 

[Bamzi]

So the land was to be given back to communities and not sold to willing buyers?Well. ...school me here.
I hope rao wins ndio nione haki ikitendeka hapa.I can tell you for a fact that some of these rich folks who own huge tracts of shambas have valid title deeds whether by hook or crook,and it will be next to impossible to disposses them.Unless of course the govt wants to find itself in legal battles of unseen scales.Because nowhere does the constitution allow such moves.Remember ,not even the staunchest of reforms should scathe on a citizen's rights.I think rao only uses land as a campaign tool.Once in power he will realise that his intentions however positive are vain.