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Post by Onyango Oloo on Jan 27, 2015 0:30:05 GMT 3
Onyango Oloo, the Administrator of the Jukwaa Kenyan online discussion forum, placed a telephone call to the Chair of the National Land Commission on the afternoon of January 26, 2015. Among other things, Oloo asked Dr. Swazuri to comment on media reports that he and Hon. Charity Ngilu, the Lands Cabinet Secretary, renewed the controversial 99 lease for the Kenyatta family to continue owning thousands of acres of land in Taita Taveta County in the coastal region of Kenya. Here is Dr. Swazuri's prompt response: Onyango Oloo Nairobi
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Post by Daktari wa makazi on Jan 27, 2015 10:42:48 GMT 3
Oloo
This all well and good for the good Doctor, but where is the evidence?
The Kenyattas have a well-know affection to land. Their involvement in many disputed land ownership is well documented. But, on the land at Taita Taveta where they held a 99 years lease, the story is different. From my calculations, they must have been given that land in 1905 - before the first world war. If anything, that should have raised eyebrows. Kenya then did not have in place a government to transact issues like land. The colonial outfit we had was basic and could hardly pass for government. By then this land was simply a communal land which belonged to the indigenous people. How the Kenyattas got it needs further probing. That should be the starting point if the good doctor Swazuri is honest to his duties. The previous lease in my view is null and void, but i doubt Dr Swazuri will say so.
However, because the Kenyattas had been given the lease for that long period, it could hardly be unrealistic to expect that after leasing the said land for 99 years, further period of 99 years would be given to them without any explanation. It is the refusal of extension for a further 99 years having given then a previous 99 years which would need to be explained, when considering the small fact that Uhuru is the president and is the person who appointed both Ngilu and Swazuri.
Dr Swazuri need not lie to us.
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Post by jakaswanga on Jan 27, 2015 12:28:46 GMT 3
Onyango Oloo, the Administrator of the Jukwaa Kenyan online discussion forum, placed a telephone call to the Chair of the National Land Commission on the afternoon of January 26, 2015. Among other things, Oloo asked Dr. Swazuri to comment on media reports that he and Hon. Charity Ngilu, the Lands Cabinet Secretary, renewed the controversial 99 lease for the Kenyatta family to continue owning thousands of acres of land in Taita Taveta County in the coastal region of Kenya. Here is Dr. Swazuri's prompt response: Onyango Oloo Nairobi Oloo, and will he now deny too, the charge from Roysambu squatters, that he is colluding with Kenyatta University to swindle them off ancestral land?
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Post by jakaswanga on Jan 27, 2015 20:54:25 GMT 3
Dr. Swazuri's prompt response: Onyango Oloo, Nairobi Oloo, this goodly doctor of yours as Sadik calls him, has to launch a special department called: DENIALS. So? another Singh story? When you have so many squatters with a historical memory of ancestral land!? you have a problem. And now that we know we cannot trust the national land master registries, what value is a court ruling on who owns the land? And the banks holding these Kenyan -- same plot multiple title deeds--- as collaterals for loans, what do they know which we don't? These are hints to the mother of all scams!
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Post by kamalet on Jan 28, 2015 10:41:47 GMT 3
Oloo This all well and good for the good Doctor, but where is the evidence? The Kenyattas have a well-know affection to land. Their involvement in many disputed land ownership is well documented. But, on the land at Taita Taveta where they held a 99 years lease, the story is different. From my calculations, they must have been given that land in 1905 - before the first world war. If anything, that should have raised eyebrows. Kenya then did not have in place a government to transact issues like land. The colonial outfit we had was basic and could hardly pass for government. By then this land was simply a communal land which belonged to the indigenous people. How the Kenyattas got it needs further probing. That should be the starting point if the good doctor Swazuri is honest to his duties. The previous lease in my view is null and void, but i doubt Dr Swazuri will say so. However, because the Kenyattas had been given the lease for that long period, it could hardly be unrealistic to expect that after leasing the said land for 99 years, further period of 99 years would be given to them without any explanation. It is the refusal of extension for a further 99 years having given then a previous 99 years which would need to be explained, when considering the small fact that Uhuru is the president and is the person who appointed both Ngilu and Swazuri. Dr Swazuri need not lie to us. It is highly unlikely that the land the Kenyattas own in Taita is leasehold land and I suspect it was freehold meaning absolute title. But even if the Kenyattas had it on leasehold, for the lease to be subject to renewal by Swazuri, then it would have been bought on a lease issued in 1913......! If we follow Sadik's logic of a non-functioning government and the land being communal how would a lease have been issued in 1913 by such a government. The Kenyattas got the land in the late 60s which would have given the lease a balance of circa 45 years. Now that does not seem feasible and I suspect that if the land was actually leasehold, it would have been for 999 years and not the 99 the media tried to create. Perhaps Oloo would have informed the rest of the crowd that the Daily Nation which was the only paper to carry the story actuall retracted the same and apologised to both the president's family and Swazuri.
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