Residents of Nyamakoroto squatters slum area near Teachers Estate along Nakuru-Nyahururu Highway are demanding for Land Title Deeds from government.
The residents said that acquisition of the same will enable them acquire loans from banks and other credit institutions to aid in development.
According Jonathan Karori, the Secretary General of Nyamakoroto Squatters Welfare Group, the government has been unable to fulfil its promise for many years, a fact he says has contributed to high level of poverty among the squatters.
Talking to this writer in his home in the slum area Thursday afternoon, Karori lamented that more than 50 families continue to languish in abject poverty and fear of eviction by land grabbers due to government’s negligence.
He said that the group wants immediate intervention of the area Member of Parliament David Gikaria and the area Member of the County Assembly Michael Macharia in petitioning the government to issue the squatters with Land Title Deeds.
“When they were campaigning, they personally visited the slum and asked the residents to table their grievances, which they promised to address once elected, however, we have never seen them here again. The MP and MCA should remember their promises and help us get title deeds,’’ appealed Karori.
He noted that the squatters want the title deeds so that they can use them to earn credit finances for development to improve their housing and living standards status.
He added that the former white settlers workers were allocated the piece of land by the founding president of Kenya Mzee Jomo Kenyatta, witnessed by former powerful Nakuru based politician Kihika Kimani in 1965, but the squatters have up to now not been issued with title deeds even after the gazetement of the same.