Saturday, 13 March 2021, 5:34 pm
The International Indigenous People’s Movement for
Self-Determination and Liberation (International IPMSDL)
unites with the Maasai Indigenous Peoples of Kenya and their
allies and advocates in condemning the recent and
longstanding attacks on the Maasai people’s right to their
ancestral lands in Kitet community.
We condemn Kedong
Ranch Limited, among whose stakeholders are relatives of
Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta, for carrying out these
attacks and we are calling on the Kenyan High Court and
Kenyan government to take the side of the Maasai against the
corporation.
Kedong Ranch Limited has acquired lease
to 75,000 acres of Maasai land since the 1970s without the
Ex-Govt Official Ordered to Forfeit Ksh80 M Assets
An undated file image of former Government official Patrick Abachi.
File
A former Government official on Thursday, March 11, suffered a huge blow after a court ordered him to forfeit all his properties valued at Ksh80,840,000.
Justice Mumbi Ngugi sitting in the Anti Corruption and Economic Crimes Division of the High Court ordered Patrick Abachi to forfeit all his assets to the Government of Kenya.
According to documents presented in court by the Ethics and Anti Corruption Commission (EACC), Abachi worked in the Ministry of Finance as an accountant during the period of 2003 and 2007.
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