Saturday 31 May 2014

The Chief declared me dead before selling my land to a cement company

By Isaiah Esipisu
A victim of land grabbing at the Coast

In a vast village blessed with coral limestone in Kilifi County, Charo Toya Tsofa, his wife, and their seven children have lived in absolute fear since 2010, when the area chief declared them dead, before selling their land to a foreign investor.

It was towards the end of November, during a legal proceeding that the Mombasa Cement Ltd produced evidence in court to explain the circumstance in which the company acquired land that rests on millions of tons of coral limestone used for manufacturing cement.