Oparanya wants titles issued to squatters
Kakamega Governor Wycliffe Oparanya wants families living as squatters in Turbo and Mumias in the county to be settled and issued with title deeds.
Oparanya said the families had tried to secure title deeds for their land for many years without success.
He urged the national government to intervene and assist the families saying his administration’s mandate was limited.
“The families in Turbo have been living on a 1,000 acre piece on land for many years as squatters because they do not have title deeds. I have tried to help them get the documents but I have not succeeded,” he said.
He said the case was the same for the families in Mumias and that it was unfair for the national government to subject them to suffering.
Speaking in Kakamega, Oparanya said the families were lawfully in possession of the land.
He revisited the aborted plan that the county had initiated with the national government to fence the Kakamega forest so as to conserve the water catchment area and use it for tourism.
