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KFS tells off land commission over order to hive off forest to squatters

Kenya Forest Service (KFS) officials and community members inspect a proposed dam site inside Mt Kenya forest on Wednesday January 30, 2019. KFS has said that it is not ready to surrender any piece of forest land to squatters as ordered by National Land Commission in a gazette notice dated March 1. FILE PHOTO | NMG

By  ALEX NJERU

Kenya Forest Service (KFS) has said that it is not ready to surrender any piece of forest land to squatters as ordered by National Land Commission in a gazette notice dated March 1.

In a press statement undersigned by the Service Board Chairman, Peter Kinyua, KFS has dismissed NLC as having no constitutional power to order degazettement of a government forest land.

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