TO EVICT OR NOT? ...........THAT'S THE QUESTION.

The coastal people have for many years complained about historical injustices and marginalization. Successive governments have chosen to ignore these outcries and this can partly be blamed for the formation of the Mombasa Republican Council. MRC has been claiming to fight for the rights of the indigenous coastal people through calls for secession and boycott of 2013 elections. For the past few weeks now a row has been brewing in Likoni due to the planned eviction of over 120,000 squatters from a 930 acres farm. The owner of this piece of land is back to reclaim his farm after many years of absence, armed with a court order for eviction of squatters. He claims that he was forcefully evicted from his land at the height of the Likoni clashes in 1997. In the period that he was absent the squatters have put up permanent residential homes and commercial buildings, there are also schools and places of worship on the land. The owner has also moved to court to have the Police Commissioner committed to a civil jail for failing to execute the court order since 2001. In Takaungu another standoff looms as the Mazrui family seeks to enforce a court order for eviction of an estimated 10,000 families from their 9,100 acres land.