Swazuri says military owns Kwa Mbuzi land

National Lands Commission chairman Muhammad Swazuri (right) points at a map showing the disputed 1,600-acre Kwa Mbuzi land in Nanyuki, yesterday. [Jacinta Mutura, Standard]

The 1,600 acres of the disputed Kwa Mbuzi land in Nanyuki belongs to the military, the National Land Commission (NLC) has declared.

The declaration by NLC chairman Muhammad Swazuri that the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) are the rightful owners of the land has dashed the hopes of hundreds of squatters who had long laid claim to the expansive land.