Saboti Constituency Member of Parliament Caleb Amisi has vowed to defend land ownership rights of former prison land residents whose fate lies with Kenya Kwanza administration.
Speaking at Parliament buildings when he met a delegation representing over 3,000 homesteads, Amisi faulted President William Ruto’s declaration during his Trans Nzoia visit that occupants of 2,700 acres land should move out voluntarily or risk being evicted and their houses demolished.
Ruto issued the ultimatum when he visited the country on January 16, 2024.
“It’s inhumanly barbaric, savagely cruel, brutish, and wicked to evict people with hidden intention of grabbing their land, lands that they have toiled to buy and called home for the last 30 years,” Amisi said.
Further, the vocal lawmaker said he will utilize all available avenues to fight so that the worried residents are not evicted.
“We will fight in Parliament, in Court, and above all, pray to God to do what He knows best,” he said.
Solution to land ownership row
The ODM legislator also accused influential and powerful people who served in former Presidents the Jomo Kenyatta and Daniel Toroitich Arap Moi’s regimes of grabbing huge tracts of land making many people landless.
He noted that “the poor descendants of the proletariat whose forefathers toiled while Kenya was being shared are being left homeless.”
With families living in the disputed land now staring at evictions, the Saboti MP appealed to the government to look for an amicable solution to land ownership in the country.
“The land ownership menace in this country can not be solved by roadside declaration by the powers that be. This madness must stop with our generation,” he stated.
The contested ex-prison land is situated on the outskirts of Kitale in Matisi ward Saboti Constituency.
Last week, armed Kenya police and prison officers led by Charles Mutembei, the Deputy Commissioner of Prisons mapped out the whole land and erected beacons on both the ex-prison and Kitale Medium Prison lands.
