5,000 Mau Mau families get land documents

Meru Governor Kiraitu Murungi (right) and Buuri MP Mugambi Rindikiri, hands a land allotment letter to a relative of Mau Mau fighters during Mashujaa Day celebrations at Timau in Meru, on October 20, 2020. The county government in conjunction with the national government collaborated in land surveying, with 5, 000 people getting allotment letters as they wait for title deeds. [Phares Mutembei, Standard]

Five thousand families of Mau Mau freedom fighters who were settled in Buuri Sub-County have been issued with land allotment letters.

Governor Kiraitu Murungi, Land Executive Jeremiah Lenya, and Sub-county Deputy Commissioner Aisha Kiva issued the land ownership documents to the Mau Mau war veterans and descendants on Tuesday.