Matuga Member of Parliament Tandaza Kassim Sawa has lamented over historical land injustice cases, especially at the Coast.
Speaking in Parliament on Thursday, Tandaza said these cases have been going on for a long time, and locals and leaders have been calling them out with no success.
He said for the longest time, tycoons have been harassing residents and chasing them out of their lands.
“There is a place in Darad, Diani, where people have built houses with valid permits from the government, yet they are being harassed by tycoons,” said Tandaza.
He proposed a special parliamentary sitting to review and amend the laws governing the National Land Commission, to strengthen and protect it from being infiltrated by cartels and wealthy land grabbers.
“It is high time Parliament made serious efforts to protect its citizens,” he added.
Tandaza was contributing to a petition titled ‘resettlement of the Kuria people in their ancestral land in Moyoyi Transmara, Narok County’, read by Kuria East Member of Parliament Marwa Kitayama.
“That the Kuria people historically occupied the area now known as Moyoyi in Transmara, Narok county, referred to as Gotura, and their presence predates that of the Masaai who arrived later in the 18th century,” read part of the petition.