A woman in Likoni on Friday, September 13, put the government on the spot for failing to adequately compensate them for the land it acquired for the Dongo Kundu Phase One road project.
Irene Mutisya told Citizen TV that even after annexing her land, the government is yet to fulfil its promise of compensating her, yet it was her family's only source of livelihood.
She alleged that she lost three and a half acres to the project, and even though she had anticipated enough money to grant her family a better life, the government only gave her an 'award' of Ksh 2,460.
The government told the family to wait for compensation.
She further claimed that she had been stopped from cultivating her piece of land, since it had become the government's property, leaving them with no alternative means of survival.
"The government had promised to give us enough to buy new land and live better than we have been before, but we were never told how much," she was quoted in the video by Citizen TV.
She hoped that the Ministry of Lands would step in and save them from the misery that they had been left in, after the government's move.
Another resident in the same predicament claimed that government machinery took measurements of the land. Estimates of their properties and houses, the value of the crops was also noted but there was no evidence documented to show the real owners of the property.
This, he stated, was his biggest fear because he did not know how the government was going to compensate them.
Phase two of the road is under construction and when completed, will connect Mombasa County to Kwale County. The government is yet to compensate the residents.
One resident estimated that the government took over 3,000 acres from the residents of Dongo Kundu.
