Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta has ordered the repossession of 70% of the land in Lamu, where there has been deadly violence since June.
He said an audit in Lamu County showed that 22 developers had irregularly acquired about 500,000 acres (202,342 hectares) of public land.
Tension in the area has been attributed to anger over people from other parts of Kenya acquiring land on the coast.
More than 100 people have been killed along the coast in raids by gunmen.
Somalia’s al-Qaeda-aligned al-Shabab Islamist group has said it is behind some of the attacks, but the authorities suspect home-grown militants and local political networks of being involved…
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