Top picture Mr. Mursa (centre)Mr. Kalmey (right)and Abude third from right.
Bottom picture shows other pastorals inhabitants on the ranch.
The invasion of ranches by pastorals seeking feeding grounds for their animals is a problems in Kenya that needs an urgent solution to be found by government to avert disaster that is just waiting to happen. Global warming and the ever increasing lack of pasture for lack of enough rains in the upper north eastern part of Kenya is a historical phenomenal that cannot be wished away.
However as individuals we can also play our part to ease the pain that most of our country men and women who are less endowed go through in their daily struggles for a better life. That is where the family of Mr. Swaleh Abubakar Bajaber comes in, the family trading as Bajaber Limited has been the rightful owners of a ranch in Lamu county L.R 26781 for a long time until some pastoralist family from Ijara district arrived looking for pasture for their herd of animals. This people and their animals, numbering over 4000 heads of cattle, were accommodated by the family of Mr. Bajaber. Being a good Muslim, he accommodated people who are now attempting to wrestle the ranch from him using two senior cabinet ministers in the current government of national unity.
This groups leaders named as Abdulwahid Mahumoud of P.0 box 88007 Mombasa, Kalmey Mahumoud and Mahumoud Mursa all of the same address are said to be working for the current minister for defense Mohamed Yusuf Haji who intern is using the minister of lands James Orengo in their desperate attempt to wrestle the ranch from the Bajaber family. All this despite the fact that the family went out of their way to built a primary school for the pastoralists children so that they could not miss out on school leaning.
The expected development of the new Lamu port is said to be the driving factor in this attempted acquisition as that ranch falls within the corridor. They herders have felled all the indigenous trees and destroyed the fence.
Professor PLO Lumumba, the outgoing anti graft czar had acting for the Bajaber family in this matter before he was whisked off by the government to fight corruption and now that he is moving out of that office, we can only ask the incoming boss to take a fresh look into this case so that the owners are not subjected to the kind of harassment they have undergone in the last few years.
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