@Ngalaka, Why do you provide evidence that there were no people living in Ruiri before colonization? Donot use gut feeling

Kenyatta abused his power by allocating himself over 50% of taita taveta and over 800 acres of land in Juja to his family at the expenses of the community members. How many landless people are in Kiambu? Taita taveta yet they belong to the community which was inhabiting that part of the country before colonization came in. Were these people forefathers landless before colonization how did they end up landless?

we have been told up there that people were buying 1.25 acres of land at Kshs 1,000 in 1968 yet mzee got a bargain from the government he was head of at only kshs 7 meaning at close to 6K he paid, he was only entitledto less than 10 acres but ended up get 509 acres.

In the 60’s Kenya’s population was in the region of 10 million or thereabouts. Kenya's land mass was the same as it is today, now against a population of about 45 million.

It follows therefore that anybody who wanted to own land went ahead and owned it, in sizes that they thought was sufficient for their needs. Of course those who wanted to acquire land relinquished by the settlers had to buy it off. Other Land was readily available in Kenya, and most of it unclaimed - read free for occupation, all one needed to do was to settle there and begin cultivating it.

I take the view that Kenyatta committed no wrong by acquiring land – as no one has credibly demonstrated that he disposed them of their land through unlawful means.

The rest is politics – the so called sound bites.

Three years after Kenya’s independence in 1963, its iconic leader, Mzee Jomo Kenyatta, invoked the powers of his office to award himself a “small” farm in Juja, on the fringes of his Gatundu homeland, an hour north of Nairobi.

The “small” farm was 509 acres. In this spirit of fairness, the grand old man also gave his son, Peter Magana Kenyatta, 200 acres next to his land. Now the two could be neighbours.

At the time, the president was telling millions of landless squatters that the new Government did not have free land to give out. Majority of the squatters had been disinherited and displaced by the colonial government as punishment for supporting the Mau mau.

Leading by example, Kenyatta paid for the two parcels of land he had obtained for himself and his son. The amount he paid was a princely sum of Sh5,472. That’s for some 709 acres! Essentially, he was buying each acre for Sh7.70. At least it wasn’t free.

On July 9, 1966, while executing the powers vested in his office, Kenyatta officially transferred the land to himself. The title deed reads in part: ”The President of the Republic of Kenya on behalf of the Government of the Republic of Kenya grant unto His Excellency Mzee Jomo Kenyatta, President of Kenya (Post Office Box 125 Ruiru) the piece of land situated in Nairobi, containing 509 acres Land Reference Number 11493…”
The only condition the “Government” gave to Kenyatta was that the land be used for agricultural purposes only.

Kenyatta would repeat the script on November 14, 1966, and sign off some 200 acres to his beloved son Magana. Documents relating to Magana’s land indicate that the title was freehold. He shared the postal address with his father.