NAIROBI, Kenya, Jan 6-Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i accompanied by his Lands counterpart, Farida Karoney will Thursday hold a meeting with elders drawn from Mukuru slum in a bid to break a persisting land stalemate before touring the slum from where they will address squatters living there.
This is aimed at solving a tussle over land ownership in the slum.
This followed a directive by President Uhuru Kenyatta that hundreds of locals who had been evicted from the area be resettled.
President Kenyatta visited the slum on December 27 at night and met the affected persons who told him some people in his government had grabbed the land and allocated themselves after evicting them.
One person was shot dead and six others were injured in a clash with police.
Two senior police officers have been suspended to pave way for investigations into the saga.
The investigations are conducted by the National Police Service’s Internal Affairs Unit (IAU) and other human rights organizations.
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