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How 1969 error cost Prisons and residents Sh9b land in Kitale

PS Salome Beacco CBS ,PS State Department of Correctional services before the National Assembly's Justice and Legal Affairs (JLAC) in consideration of 2025 Budget Policy statement at Continental House, Parliament Nairobi. Correctional Services is seeking funding to improve their Correctional facilities (prisons) and improved services across the country .February 26th,2025.[Elvis Ogina/Standard]

Kenya Prisons and thousands of families in Kitale must figure out how to compensate a grandson of a white settler or vacate 4,941 acres following a fatal blunder dating back to 1969.

This is after Land Court Judge Christopher Nzili found that the decision to occupy the land, made in 1968, and the subsequent subdivisions, were illegal.

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