Save Lamu

Today Save Lamu members paraded around Lamu town chanting to demonstrate against the port after learning recently from the media that the government is still pushing full steam ahead prior to making any efforts for consulting the local communities. The team started protesting from the National Environmental Management Authority up to the Kenya Ports Authority…

Lamu was all abuzz with a visit from a team of Ministry of Lands officials who went to Faza yesterday to hand out title deeds and today are in Mokowe. At Faza, title deeds were issues to some select residents of Faza and Tchundwa whose farms had already been surveyed since as early 2009. The…

Save Lamu sent numerous letters of appear to government officials including the Kenya Ports Authority, NEMA, and the Ministry of Transport to lobby against the initiation of the port project prior to consultations and an environmental impact assessment. Over 100 letters were sent to the government officials, non-governmental organizations, and individuals nationally and internationally.  Save…

Yesterday members of the Parliamentary Committee for Lands and Natural Resources came to Lamu to investigate the question raised in parliament about indigenous community members of Lamu lacking titles to their land as well as facing historical land injustice. Members of the committee that came included Hon. Mutava Musyimi, Hon. Benedict Fondo Gunda, Hon. Benjamin…