President Uhuru Kenyatta faces a daunting task to appease Coast residents following calls for secession by a section of leaders.
Coastal residents have given the Jubilee administration ultimatums that they must comply with if they want to get support from them in 2022.
Thousands of squatters are facing eviction as private developers maintain they have title deeds for the land. The squatters are unwilling to relinquish their ancestral land.
Kenya Land Alliance (KLA) Coast Chapter Chairman Nagib Shamsan stated that the President would have to stop evictions that were facing them.
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He further maintained that the President must put in place a land reform strategy that would guide the settlement of squatters even after he has left office.
Jubilee administration boasts of issuing up to 300,000 title deeds in the Coast region, but Mr Shamsan stated that this had not achieved much.
The President was also advised by Mr Shamsan to cement his legacy at the Coast by reviving some of the industries and the cash crops whose fortunes had dwindled.
A task force that was set up by the State to probe cashew nut and coconut farming at the Coast reported that Sh2 billion was required to revive the sectors.
Kilifi Senator Stewart Madzayo alleged that Jubilee deliberately ignored the cashew nut and coconut farming in the region and no plans were put in place to boost production.
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“Jubilee wrote off debts of coffee and tea farmers in other parts of the country. Ask yourself what did Jubilee do for cashew nut and coconut sector in the last four years,” he posed.
