{"id":16679,"date":"2020-10-28T21:00:38","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T21:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/kenya\/?p=16679"},"modified":"2020-10-28T21:00:38","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T21:00:38","slug":"mautuma-squatters-plead-for-title-deeds-from-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/mautuma-squatters-plead-for-title-deeds-from-state","title":{"rendered":"Mautuma squatters plead for title deeds from State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>AfricaPress-Kenya:<\/strong> Squatters in Mautuma Central Settlement Scheme in Lugari sub-county have appealed to President Uhuru Kenyatta to help them get title deeds.<\/p>\n<p>The scheme, established in 1995 through a presidential decree, has 9,000 acres hived off Lugari forest and allocated to the persons who had been displaced as a result of 1992 election clashes witnessed in Turbo, Matunda, Soy, Magut, Kipkaren, Chekalini, Likuyani and Jua-Kali.<\/p>\n<p>The over 3,500 squatters are yet to be issued with title deeds more than two decades later.<\/p>\n<p>A meeting on August 2, this year at the scheme and chaired by Eliud Mulinga, resolved that there was need for the Head of State to consider giving them title deeds.<\/p>\n<p>The former chairman of the Nyayo National Guidance Movement (NNGM) Alexander Hoops regretted that the squatters are not able to access loans from financial institutions due to lack of deeds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe land has become a subject of confusion and corruption. The people living there are suffering and cannot even acquire loans to enable them engage in large-scale farming,\u201d said Mr Hoops.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have seen the President issue title deeds in other parts of the country, but we feel forgotten,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, the beneficiaries were required to deposit Sh10,000 to have letters of allotment, but most of them refused to pay the money.<\/p>\n<p>The squatters were adamant that they would not pick the letters until &#8216;fake squatters&#8217; are evicted from the settlement scheme.<\/p>\n<p>They further asserted that they wanted the land allocated afresh, arguing that local politicians have allocated fake squatters plots and ignored genuine ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AfricaPress-Kenya: Squatters in Mautuma Central Settlement Scheme in Lugari sub-county have appealed to President Uhuru Kenyatta to help them get title deeds. 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