Kenya Land Issues
Kenya Land Issues
Kenya Land Issues
• Revisit Ndung’u Report of 2004, Akiwumi Report and Kiiliku Report (cross-reference w/ODM Strategy containing funding)
• Kenya Times web site on 9 Dec 2004: Residents of Archer' s Post location in Samburu District who recently received
compensation from the British government for injuries caused by ordinances left in their area and raping of their
women by UK military soldiers are in a tussle to reclaim army training land. They complained that the UK military had
been encroaching on their land despite having set aside 90,000 acres for training range, which they are urging
for regazettement. The pastoralists said that they had been pressurized to give out their land as they did with the
Samburu National Reserve and they fear they would be rendered squatters in their own land.
• http://www.nationmedia.com/eastafrican/current/News/news25020810.htm Rift Valley land issues date to colonial period.
Elijah Marima Sempeta, murdered in 2005, publicly questioned why Magadi Soda Company (now Tata Chemicals)
continued to monopolise exploitation of soda ash in Lake Magadi. Sempeta’s grouse was that the 222,788 acres it was
on had been hived off from formerly Maasai land. There is evidence that other communities —Kalenjin, Kisii, Kikuyu and
Luhya — came into the picture after the Maasai. First to make such an application was the East African Syndicate (a
South African company), which applied for 320,000 acres in then Naivasha in 1902. Lord Delamere also applied for
100,000 acres of the best most favoured grazing grounds of the Maasai between lakes Nakuru and Naivasha.
• http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2006/oct/26/kenya.chrismcgreal Tom Cholmondeley, accused of shooting two black
people on his land. Despite 40 years of black rule, many white Kenyans lead hugely privileged lives and some still own
vast swathes of the country. Cholmondeley to inherit a 100,000-acre ranch with the title of Lord Delamere.
• http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/30/AR2005063001575_pf.html Colonial Legacies
http://justicefortom.com/2008/01/27/message-from-tom-cholmondeley-to-choral-via-lady-delamere/
• http://mondediplo.com/2005/01/09maumau KENYA became a British protectorate in 1895 and a Crown colony in 1920. At
the beginning of the first world war 6,000 Europeans, just 1% of the population, monopolised 25% of arable soil, mostly in
the fertile highlands. They exploited the abundant local labour force, especially the Kikuyu and the Luo, who were
allowed some land in exchange for their work.
• Reference East African Standard of August 29,2004: Ranchers ignorant of 999 year lease - ownership of largest tracts of
land in Kenya (in acres): 100,000: Kuki Gallman; 32,000: Michael Dyer; 16,000: Jack Kenyon; 12,000 acres: Martin
Evans; 3,600 acres: Odile De Weck. Most have no legal title and are not Kenyan. Sir Edward Clay’s ranch in Kenya
• Kenyan TV reviews land ownership in proposed new constitution $2.95 - BBC Archive - NewsBank - Sep 4, 2005
[Presenter] The proposed constitution bars foreigners from owning free hold land in Kenya. Land owned by non-
citizens will revert to the state for ...
• Research: Government attempt in 2005 to limit leases from over 950 years to 99 year for consistency with black Kenyans.
• (SOURCE: http://allafrica.com/stories/200412160888.html) LAND DATA ON COMPUTER SOON SAYS KENYAN
MINISTER All information on land will be available at the touch of a button, Lands minister Amos Kimunya has
said.Kenyan's will in future know who owns what land, its location and other features from computer data.
• Ranchers ignorant of 999-year lease, The Standard - Standard - Aug 29, 2004, But she is, surprisingly, not a Kenyan
citizen after all. ... The rancher also claimed that the Maasai, who were displaced by White farmers, ...
• http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/13/opinion/13cohen.html?_r=1&sq=Kenya,%20Naivasha,%20rose&st=nyt&oref=slogin&
scp=1&pagewanted=print March 13, 2008, Op-Ed Columnist, The Global Rose as Social Tool by ROGER COHEN
NAIVASHA, Kenya –From Kenya' s Rift Valley, Longonot Horticulture exports 90,000 rose stems a day. Longonot started
with 10 acres of roses in 2002 and now farms 60 acres. Harry Milbank, the general manager, is from a white
Zimbabwean farming family.
• San Francisco Chronicle - Aug 20, 2004, Now, Kenyan authorities and organizations such as Sausalito-based Wildlife ...
African ranch hands saw the mostly white ranchers shooting wildlife for meat ...
• Masai seek return of the ancestral lands they lost at gunpoint, Guardian Unlimited - Jul 26, 2004, In recent years,
prompted by falling beef prices, the white ranchers have shifted from farming ... The white ranches are lusher and ...
• New Kenyan wildlife law enrages activists, Independent Online - Dec 17, 2004, Nairobi - A controversial new Kenyan law,
passed this month to allow sport ... by a lawmaker serving the interests of white ranchers when most members were ...
• Subscription - International Herald Tribune - HighBeam Research - Sep 22, 2004, Gallman is one of only several dozen
white ranchers in Laikipia but together their holdings stretch far and wide in central Kenya. Her ranch, Ol Ari Nyiro, ...
• Kenyan Maasai lawyer dismisses white ranchers as "robbers", $2.95 - BBC Archive - NewsBank - Sep 1, 2004,
[Sempeta] We are claiming land alienated in the 1904 and 1911 agreements ...
• KENYA: MAASAI, FORMER FREEDOM FIGHTERS WANT THEIR LAND BACK. Source: Interpress Service Publication
Date: 27-NOV-06 by Joyce Mulama -... Historical injustices have resulted in landlessness among Kenyans. The
Draft National Land Policy of Oct 2006 is the first to be drawn up in the country.
• Kenya moves to legally regulate land tenure. Source: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire Publication Date: 12-MAR-05
• Kenya Times web site on 12 Jan 2005: Lands and Settlements Minister Amos Kimunya yesterday issued a 12-month
ultimatum to individuals who own over 1,000 acres of land that lies fallow to either develop or lose it to the state.
Kimunya asked members of parliament to acquire copies of the Ndung'u report before making any criticisms.
• Kenyan KTN TV on 10 December. The much anticipated Ndung' u report on land is blaming former presidents Jomo
Kenyatta and Daniel arap Moi for the massive land grabbing during their tenures.
• Research corrupt land deals : http://www.eastandard.net/archives/cl/hm_news/news.php?articleid=1143954753 Sunday
July 2, 2006 Litany of big money graft cases pending in courts
• http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-19771636_ITM Accurate figures are difficult to come by but the
Mozambican government claims that over 100 white Zimbabwean farmers arrived during the course of 2002 alone…
• http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4176805.stm, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/correspondent/2416049.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2005/mar/07/worlddispatch.kenya/print
http://www.nationmedia.com/EastAfrican/15032004/Business/Business1503200434.html
http://www.hinduonnet.com/2007/04/30/stories/2007043004911400.htm
DONOR AMOUNT ROLE REF
TATA CHEMICALS INVOLVED IN LAND DISPUTE WITH THE MASAI OVER THE FORMER L. MAGADI SODA ASH
(see land file separately). Related stories:
• The Daily Telegraph: Masai anger erupts as Happy Valley murder case is dropped
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/05/18/wchol18.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/05/18/ixworld.ht
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• The Standard (Kenya): Outrage as Delamere kin shoots another man dead
http://www.eastandard.net/hm_news/news.php?articleid=1143952399
• The Standard (Kenya): Delamere kin taken to Kamiti Prison after denying murder charge
http://eastandard.net/hm_news/news.php?articleid=1143953026
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_P._G._Cholmondeley
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DONOR AMOUNT ROLE REF
HON. N. BALALA 8000000 ODM • ODM-NAMLEF MOU - FridayBulletin228 Newsletter hails MOU
FAMILY Leader, • http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L20675141.htm Balala
genocide hinted at an ethnic isolation of Kibaki'
s Kikuyu. He referred to
supporter "reducing them to an island like Lesotho" if talks fail.
SPECTRE 90000000 Energem / 55% owned by Energem. Rest still owned by Odinga family. Family
INTERNATIONA Odinga remain on board of directors http://www.allipo.com/articles/33180/ipo-
L& family energem-resources-first-day-of-dealings Energem Resources 26 Nov
ASSOCIATES business 2007 Significant shareholders: Lyndhurst Ltd 27.42%,
Dubai fund raiser mentioned in ODM Poll Strategy: Vice-Chairperson
Energem Inc - Mr SH Al Maktoum (Sheikh)
http://www.ameinfo.com/147212.html Dubai Dept of Information.
http://www.bcsc.bc.ca/comdoc.nsf/comdoc.nsf/webpolicies/BF073F4
E8B1C7AC38825712A00830FF5?OpenDocument
SANDLINE 10000000 Private Texeira, Bemba, Buckingham, Col. Spicer funding - Private military
INTERNATIONA military firm owned by A Texeira etc. ‘Closed’ 2004. Now Aegis
L (mercenary Oct 25, 2005, Aegis'acquisition of Rubicon International effective
) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubicon_International_Services