Levi Cheruo Cheptora

 

With  a  fast  growing  population  in  Kenya,  limited  resources including  land  and  jobs,  have  severely  been  put  in  extreme pressure.  Responsive  political  operatives  cognizant  of  this  reality have  appreciated  the  importance  of  incorporating  progressive policies  that  seek  to  aggressively  address  poverty,  landlessness, unequal distribution of resources and unemployment, as a matter of

priority  (in  their  party  manifestos)  if  any  social  stability  is  to  be

maintained  in  Kenya. 

 

Without  doubt,  the  opposition  party  ODM  sold  an  attractive campaign package that sought to address historic land injustices, unemployment, inequitable resource sharing and poverty through a radical constitutional transformation, under the framework of the people-tailored Bomas Constitution Draft. ODM proposed to tackle the  land  problem  through  clauses  in  the  Bomas  draft,  captured under devolution and land chapters, with specific plans to form a National Land Commission to address the issue of landlessness and historic injustices of expropriation of native land by colonial and post-colonial powers. The roots of the land conflicts in Rift Valley land lie with the former colonial power, Britain, post-independence land policies by the Jomo Kenyatta, Daniel Moi and Mwai Kibaki

administrations;  and  the  tendency  for  ethnic  favouritism  and atronage  by  power  wielders.