A local lands and settlements lobby group has threatened to mobilise squatters at an informal settlement area in Nakuru town to demonstrate against an alleged land grabbing saga.
The lobby, Muungano Wa Wanavijiji, helps marginalised people solve land disputes and has sworn to mobilise more than 200 squatters to demonstrate the alleged grabbing of the land by a private developer.
Nakuru region coordinator James Mwangi told this reporter that his group would investigate the land grabbing saga before taking necessary action.
He said squatters living at Nyamakoroto slums along Nakuru-Subukia road in the outskirts of Nakuru town were being threatened with eviction by unknown people through circulars. The notices were allegedly distributed in the slum last weekend.
He added: "We are investigating to establish if the land has been allocated to any individual or group. This area is a government land that was allocated to the squatters fifty years ago and we will not allow them to be displaced," said Mwangi.
Mwangi said that the squatters, some of whom are members of his group had called him and asked for the organisation's intervention following the circulars.
He said, “The circular could have been authored by the land grabbing crooks operating in Nakuru. They said that the squatters should vacate the land to pave way for development by the owner.”
He said through the planned demonstration, they will petition the Governor of Nakuru County and the lands cabinet secretary to intervene to prevent the displacement of the poor.