[Miscellaneous]

Originally Posted by OOWITI

IDP"S played a very big role in feeding the country and their effects are being felt by everyone.I guess the ministry of agriculture should fix the problem.they know the cause.I quote the daily nation online o4/27/2008 see below
"Mr Ruto craftily avoided the topic of resettlement and the pre-election violence. He chose instead to dwell on the food crisis facing his ministerial docket. In fact, he revealed that there would be a 30 to 35 per cent drop in crop output in the Rift Valley because farmers now in IDP camps are unable to plant".

Kibaki, uhuru, moi have enough land to settle the idp's(mau mau veteran's families between them- this is rediculus!!

the extended kenyatta family alone owns an estimated 500,000 acres — approximately the size of nyanza province — according to estimates by independent surveyors and ministry of lands officials who spoke on condition of anonymity.

The kibaki and moi families also own large tracts of land though most of the moi family land is held in the names of his sons and daughters and other close family members. Most of the holders of the huge parcels of land are concentrated within the 17.2 per cent part of the country that is arable.

The remaining 80 per cent is mostly arid and semi arid land. In fact, according to the kenya land alliance, more than a half of the arable land in the country is in the hands of only 20 per cent of the 30 million kenyans.

That has left up to 13 per cent of the population absolutely landless while another 67 per cent on average own less than an acre per person.


here is some education for OOWITI- i wonder whether OOwiti can read????

Many settlers were returning to britain. Kenyatta and his cronies quickly formed the settlement transfer fund schemes (stfs) and asked the british for a loan to the kenyan government, to buy off land from colonial settlers returning to britain.

Good idea up to this point. Britain, having been reassured by kenyatta that those settlers still wishing to stay on in kenya would not have their land repossessed, advanced the money. This money was used to buy settler land which was officially sold into the kenyatta initiated settlement transfer fund schemes (stfs).

next, kenyatta began to give away and sell for peanuts, these government (stfs)-acquired, former colonial land parcels, to himself, his family and cronies around 1964 and 1965. This is the point when the rain started beating kenya. Kenyatta’s then vice president, jaramogi oginga odinga, cried foul and rejected these acts of wanton land grabbing.