There has been some falsehood about coastal land that has been paddled for far too long sample these:
1. That the coastal people are land poor hence are squatters. The people outside 10 miles of the shores have some of the lowest population density outside northeastern. But they all crave to live within Mwambao strip.the Arabs are the top beneficiaries of the 10 mile Sultan of Zanzibar-colonial govt arrangement since the Miji Kenda had not desire nor business with the sea or the coast as we know it today.
2. The feeling of entitlement to land is a creation of the new agitation politics resulting from Moi,s misrule and grabbing.
3. If Waitiki holds the title to the land then compensation is the right thing at his fair estimation of loss incurred and damages.

Apologies for the bad feelings elicited by the tribal angle invoked but this is inevitable. In reference to the "gicagis" the displaced persons are of the same tribe as their billionaire neighbours and nowhere is the contempt, disrespect and just plain madharau for poor people greater than in that community by those who have made it towards those who have not.

The sentiments expressed by Kiash are not just that he is entitled to what he has worked for but that those who have been dispossessed have no case at all. I know I am treading on thin ice here but hear me out. The same successful hard working members of this community having very justifiably worked hard and saved went ahead and bought land from the British who had displaced other people in other areas and they came with the same mentality that those who are without are lazy and it is their fault and they have no right to claim anything.

No one is denying that people who have earned their property should have the right to it but on the flipside to totally deny the cry of whole communities that there has been a problem in allocation is to be blind to the very elements that foster tribal enmity and clashes and revolutions.

If there is a group of displaced Maasai squatters, they deserve to be heard. It is this mentality that there is no problem, that I have a problem with.

Rept

I am glad you raise the point and also that you frame it the way you do. Your argument is at the extreme end of one solution in which we acknowledge that there were people who were displaced and that they do have a right to some form of retribution. Then the question will arise what about us, the current owners who have bought the land and developed it into what it is today. We have rights too and you would be right.

Now @jagger here is where it becomes kizungumkuti, the current state of affairs where the name on the title deed is all that matters and all other people can go to hell represents the opposite extreme of your solution above. It is as unacceptable to all the disenfranchised people as it would be for you to have your hard earned plot taken from you.

The solution lies somewhere in the middle. Those who have cannot just throw their hands at those who don't have and tell them to just work harder.