Evanson Waitiki, the owner of a 930-hectare farm in Likoni which is at the centre of a dispute, has accused Lands Cabinet Secretary Charity Ngilu of inciting the public against him.
Ngilu toured the farm on Friday afternoon and told the over 100,000 occupants of the land that no one will be evicted. She was accompanied by Likoni MP Masoud Mwahima.
“No house will be demolished. No tractor will roar in this place,” she told the Likoni residents on Friday adding that some 6,000 titles to lands in the area will be issued in a month’s time.
Yesterday, Waitiki said there is a court case still active over the same piece of land and that Ngilu should never have made such statements.
Ngilu said on Friday that she had done her study and will get an amicable solution soon. But Waitiki’s lawyer Gacheru Nganga said she never bothered to get her facts right.
Mwahima on Friday said he will set up a 13-member committee that will furnish Ngilu with all the facts and history over the farm. He said the farm is the cause of the many conflicts in Likoni over land.
Ngilu said the government plans to construct permanent two-bedroom houses that will be sold to the residents for between Sh1 million and Sh1.5 million with the residents paying over a duration of time.
Yestersday, Nganga said in a statement: “The minister decided to hear one part of the story; that is that of the illegal invaders of the land. She did not seek to hear the other side; that is the side that now wishes to reply.”
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