The Yala swamp community in Siaya County wants the government to hasten the process of registering the wetland as community land to enable them to have a say on its use.
According to the members of the community who met at Musunguru grounds to get a report from their representatives who went to the National Lands Commission headquarters in Nairobi, registration of the land will help safeguard it from grabbers.
They said that the current arrangement is skewed in favour of investors who decide on what to do with the land and even chase the locals from the portions they have been cultivating for subsistence.
Led by the chairman of the Yala swamp community, Okumu Fredrick, the locals said that they were ready to work with anyone who is ready to recognise them as the bona fide owners of the wetland.
