A gang carrying machetes and sticks set upon people driving to a land allocation event on Friday and burned their vehicle, said Josphat Kithumbu, a lands official for Embu county, which issued the title deeds. “Planning has been done, titles have been issued and boundaries have been established ... What is happening now is just showing the beneficiaries their land. It was subdivided and allocated in 2015, with more than 7,000 private title deeds issued in 2016, he said. “Kirinyaga people will not trade off their birth-right in exchange for an unfair rushed solution to the dispute,” she said in a statement on Friday, adding that there had not been public participation in the “unethical” land allocation process. “The unilateral decision of the Embu County Government to move into the disputed land is recipe for anarchy and chaos.”Nkanata said the allocation was carried out legally.

Source: Standard Digital April 18, 2018 10:52 UTC