@Wendz
I like your optimism.
I quite appreciate the need to balance between sustainable land use to realize optimum production and letting our people be.
Agreed small paddocks wont feed the Nation effectively, neither can we export any meaningful quantities of Cash crops.
That no withstanding, lets face Kenya’s reality;
We are primarily (unfortunate as it is) a peasants economy. Our people largely depend on their land to LIVE.
In a typical family in upcountry Kenya less than 20% of the household is involved in salaried engagement. It therefore translates that 80% of their livelihood is directly drawn from harnessing their land.
That’s why the Land issue and its ownership is so emotive around here.
Now the proposed law seeks to draw a line on the minimum parcel of land that one can own legally!
In the proposed constitution, parliament has up to 5years to come up with that legislation – see fifth schedule.
Inevitably, in certain areas siblings will have to communally own land as no division is permissible under the law!!
Si mapanga hayo!!!
Until and unless Kenya gets industrialized or the economy grows in such a way that our people don’t have to rely on their land to self sustain, then land issue will remain a hyper sensitive matter.
Those of us occupying the comfort zone, need be careful as we attempt to walk the tight rope of pontificating from our armchairs in the city, on matters of life and death that touch on our brethren in the upcountry.
I am positive the balance can be found, but care is necessary more than ever before.
Dunia ni msongamano..