On Saturday, hundreds of villagers in Laikipia protested, demanding settlement on a disputed 2,000-acre farm.
The residents claimed they had been living on the property as squatters for many years without being asked to leave.
Speaking at a demonstration to demand settlement, they stated that the farm’s owner, a settler named Irene Ida Norman, died in 1959, three years after her lease on the site expired.
Speaking for the group, Wilson Leshao, said they were recently shocked after an Asian came and fenced off 260 acres of the 2,192 acre farm located in Kisiriri area of Salama Ward, Laikipia West constituency.
The squatters demanded audience with Governor Joshua Irungu, adding that they had suffered several issues over the years, including their houses being torched.
