Groups wants politicians to keep off fresh subdivision of scheme land


BY REPORTER

A section of residents has reawakened calls to divide afresh the disputed Mwea settlement scheme in Mbeere South Embu-county.

The Nyangi Ndiiriri cultural group wants the National government to exclude politicians in demarcating and allocating  the 44,000 acre scheme land for the exercise succeed.

The group led by their chairman Andrew Ireri accused politicians of using the scheme distribution issue as a campaign tool to bag votes in the process scuttling its fair distribution.

In 2016, the Embu County Government in conjunction with the National Land Commission subdivided the land and issued 7,232 title deeds but many residents claimed they were left out. Attempts to resettle the beneficiaries turned bloody and it was called off.

The Nyangi elders want President Uhuru Kenyatta to intervene and have the land distributed to the deserving beneficiaries.

To minimise unfairness in the process, Ireri asked the president to ensure neutral lands officials who are not affiliated to the Embu County Government execute the subdivision.

Speaking to the press in Embu town where he was accompanied by the group’s secretary Patrick Kamwega,  he said they have compiled a list of deserving beneficiaries and furnished it to the representatives of the President, the Attorney General, Lands Cabinet Secretary Fridah Karoney and her Interior counterpart Fred Matiang’I for action.

Ireri explained that the list was prepared by a management committee that had representative of elders from Embu, Kamba and Kirinyaga communities.

He warned that if politicians are allowed to spearhead the fresh subdivision, they would influence to have their cronies benefit at the expense of people who have lived in the scheme for decades.

“We want politicians to keep off because they would not want the matter solved completely. In other parts of the country lands dispute have always been solved successfully whenever politicians were kept away,” said Ireri.

The Nyangi Ndiiriri group has compiled the names of close to 2,000 squatters who they assert genuinely needs land and want them allocated 12,243 acres.

The group further wants some 10,000 acres set aside for irrigation rice farming.

They want the rest of the land reserved for more genuine cases.


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