nwamaina wrote:Anyone {entrepreneur }in Mzee Kenyatta s shoes would have done the same...the morality or lack of the same not withstanding..this is called the entrepreneurial spirit,while the fighters were awaiting handouts from the government,Kenyatta was busy buying at the lowest price so issues of morality aside this was truly legal and no one was barred from buying as much land as they could have afforded,the selling price is not the issue here even if he bought at 10cts per acre he paid money and was given value for it by the fleeing colonialists he took advantage of the ignorance of the Kenyans then as he was more exposed to the ways of capitalism in his studies and tours abroad...so really he was just being a serial entrepreneur,the moralist views emerging now are just as a result of people being enlightened at the wrong time but if anyone can prove that he grabbed why not try the new courts of law...
So they were fighting for land they never had in the first place?
Was this "lowest price" available to everyone else? Selling price is an issue if the land is not available e.g. at 10cts to everyone.
Took advantage of the ignorance of Kenyans? Are you forgetting that this was a leader - President? One should never celebrate a leader taking advantage of his people's "ignorance" - especially when you were not privy the the negotiations that went regarding land on the eve of Kenya's independence.
Seriously, 500k is HUGE!