Implementing TJRC Report Will Not Cure Land Grabbing In Kenya Neither leaving all land matters to National Land Commission alone, nor implementing the TJRC report will eradicate or undo past land grabbing in Kenya. TJRC was constituted more to conceal than reveal truth about land grabbing. It was denied legal mandate to investigate and reveal colonial and post independence land grabbing and atrocities. TJRC was constituted more to favor land grabbers than squatter victims. It compromised its integrity by paying Moi – and by extension his class - a courtesy call. Its commissioners wrote their report more to protect their benefactor-leaders than expose land grabbing. Impartiality and suitability of its chair were contested in court. While perpetrators of colonial and Kanu crimes could serve in the TJRC, not so its victims unlike Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa that was chaired by Bishop Tutu. I did not even take my case to TJRC because many former detainees lacked faith in it. Some commissioners did not sign the TJRC report claiming it was doctored without their knowledge. Consider the irony that while Betty Murungi, Orengo’s wife resigned from TJRC in protest against the Commission being chaired by a compromised person Orengo is today championing the implementation of its compromised report. TJRC of Kenya was never meant to succeed. After amendments by Parliament, most likely, the TJRC report will be endorsing land grabbing rather than ending it.
Posted on: Sat, 09 Aug 2014 14:39:40 +0000
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