Families that have lived as squatters in their ancestral land in Kisii Town for six decades heaved sighs of relief after the Senate Committee for Lands visited the area to hear their case.
For close to 60 years, the residents of Mwabundusi village located in the outskirts of Kisii Town, have been living near the expansive 500 acres of land that is currently occupied by the Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization (Kalro) after the government acquired the parcel without compensation.
On Tuesday, the Senate Committee on Lands, Environment and Natural Resources visited the village that is sandwiched between Jogoo, Kisii Bottlers and Kiong'anyo estates on a fact-finding mission, a year after the residents filed a petition for their resettlement or compensation.
Led by their legal counsel Philip Achiki Ndubi, the residents told the Committee which was chaired by Nominated Senator Karen Nyamu that the land was allegedly snatched from them and handed to Kalro in the 1960s and they were left as squatters.
