5 Dec 2012 in National Assembly:
(b) How did the University acquire the land and from who?
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5 Dec 2012 in National Assembly:
(c) Could the Minister provide copies of ownership documents by the University?
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5 Dec 2012 in National Assembly:
Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is not true that there is no intention of evicting these people. I have a letter from the Divisional Officer (DO), Mpeketoni, which is telling these people that they should have been evicted from April. It warns them that they will be forcefully evicted any time. There has been a problem. The Minister says he allocated that land 11 years ago to Egerton University, but those farmers have been living there for last 15 years. What criteria did the Ministry use to allocate land to university which was
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5 Dec 2012 in National Assembly:
1 Wednesday, 5th December, 2012(P) already occupied by poor Kenyans? Is there a way that he can revoke this allotment and, probably, allocate the land to those people and then look for another land or give the remaining portion of land Egerton University?
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5 Dec 2012 in National Assembly:
On a point of order, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. Is the Minister in order to say that they cannot settle squatters who they are creating themselves? If that is the case, they should not have allocated that land to Egerton University 11 years ago whereas it has been occupied for 15 years.
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5 Dec 2012 in National Assembly:
Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, my point of order---
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5 Dec 2012 in National Assembly:
Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, although these people have not been evicted, they are living in fear. They have been fenced in the land as it has been said. As we talk now, these people are not able to farm. The tractors are not allowed by the Egerton administration to drive onto that land. Could the Minister, if possible, accompany me this weekend to Lamu so that we sort out this issue? It seems that it is only the people with money who can afford to own land in Kenya or else you go to court. If you are poor, ...
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25 Sep 2012 in National Assembly:
) to ask the Minister for Lands:- (a) Is the Minister aware that about 50 farmers and their families are about to be evicted from land they have occupied for close to 15 years by Egerton University in Mpeketoni, Lamu? (b) How did the university acquire the land and from who?
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19 Sep 2012 in National Assembly:
Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to ask the Minister for Lands the following Question by Private Notice. (a) Is the Minister aware that about 50 farmers and their families are about to be evicted from land they have occupied for close to 15 years by Egerton University in Mpeketoni, Lamu? (b) How did the University acquire the land and from whom? (c) Could the Minister provide copies of ownership documents by the University?
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19 Sep 2012 in National Assembly:
Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for the second time, I beg to ask the Minister for Lands, the following Question by Private Notice. (a) Is the Minister aware that about 50 farmers and their families are about to be evicted from land they have occupied for close to 15 years by Egerton University in Mpeketoni, Lamu? (b) How did the University acquire the land and from who? (c) Could the Minister provide copies of ownership documents by the University?
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