Kusadikika wrote:AlphDoti wrote:hardwood wrote:Kusadikika wrote:I was recently watching a tv show that highlighted just how messed up land issues are in Kirinyaga.
Let's say there is a mzee who is married to 1 wife. They live on a 10 acre piece of land. They have 2 sons and 2 daughters. The sons live on the same land and mzee has "shown" them where to build. They are also married and have 3 children each. Both daughters were married but one was chased away by her husband and has come home and mzee "showed" her where to live. The woman came home with her 2 sons and her sons are actually the more enterprising ones because they have biasharas. They build for their mother a stone house. All this time the whole land only has one title that is in the name of the original mzee but now there are 3 separate homesteads with more than 10 adult children who have all been born there and know no other home.
2 generations of people live there but are not familiar with the land documents.
You go to those places to buy land. You find clean documents. You do a search and everything looks good only to go on the ground and find a kijiji of people who all tell you that is their land. The land has never been divided, it has never been sold but all those people own the land. That is how murders happen.
Ancestral land should never be sold. All the offspring and grandkids of that mzee have a right to live on their ancestral land and they own the land collectively. So anyone coming with a piece of paper claiming to have bought the land is asking for trouble, the clan will deal with you.
Wah! @kusadikika... So does that mean we need to inherit our lands to our descendants and each have their own title or what! But I don't want the land to be subdivided and rendered less economical!
I think there needs to be more land use laws. It is this "kuonyeshwa" that messes things up. Is the land agricultural, is it residential, is it industrial etc In our case "ukionyeshwa" it means you can do anything you want on it including selling it or subdividing it further. Our land use laws are not comprehensive enough.
Once you have these laws then you know what you can and cannot do with it. There should be laws to limit how much subdivision can be done.
If I am not wrong in European countries, you cannot divide agricultural land. There are lands that have been in the same family for generations lakini you just pick one person to inherit the whole thing na wengine wajipange. If not you sell it to one person mgawane pesa.
The land use laws are adequate. You don't need anymore. Just someone to implement them.
Remember the time I wrote on this forum that I wouldn't trust Swazuri in NLC? Well, he has great and wonderful land use thesis at ADD.
Apparently, he forgot all about them and started allocating land willy nilly.
This issue of land will only end with our children. Everywhere you go in Kenya, anyone older than 35 will bore you to death with a kaburoti, matatu and gashungwa.
Sad..
So more of our agemates are going to be killed. By their wives, husbands, brothers, sisters and sacco members.
Because as Njunge doesn't want to say, we are just plain lazy...Buroti Maguta maguta.
Thieves are not good people. Tumeelewana?