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Squatters' joy as state promises 174 hectares of forest land

Shaviringa settlers spokesman Frederick Igunza (center) with other settlers during a press briefing in Mbale town on February 20, 2023. [Brian Kisanji, Standard]

Richard Nyamage has always cursed the day his family agreed to move from their ancestral land in Mbale to a settlement scheme in Shaviringa, Hamisi, Vihiga County.

His family was among over 300 clans who in 1985 gave out their combined 30-acre piece of land to the government in exchange for government parcels in Hamisi.

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