Siaya senator and former Lands Minister James Orengo now says the real land grabbers in Lamu County include a former Provincial Commissioner and some relatives of President Uhuru Kenyatta. The former Minister says he is being targeted as a scapegoat, but is willing to appear before the authorities if required to do so to defend his name.
Orengo also released over 800 names of people he claims have acquired land illegally in various parts of Kenya over the years. “I want to tell you without any fear of contradiction and with a clear conscience that before I talk the matter at heart, that me James Orengo the Senator for Siaya on the basis of my record in the struggle to bring about reforms in the country, that I will be the last person with a free conscience to do the kind of things that I am currently being accused of,” he declared.
Orengo who is a renowned lawyer said there would have been opportunities for him to even buy or even acquire land in many parts of this country but decided on his own choice that he should keep off from buying land however legitimate it looked.
He said among those on the list of alleged land grabbers is Deputy President William Ruto adding that the greedy land cartels belong to what he called ‘the Moi orphans’ who are agitated by reforms he undertook as a Land Minister. On Lamu, he insisted the real problem did not happen during his tenure but are historical injustices.
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