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Experts: Why Uhuru’s Waitiki land deal is a bad precedent

Land experts and other players in the sector are concerned that last weekend’s official transfer of Waitiki land in Kilifi to squatters could set a bad precedence.

On Saturday, President Uhuru Kenyatta handed title deeds to the first 5,000 beneficiaries of the deal that saw Evanson Waitiki transfer his 780-acre piece of land in Likoni to the government.

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