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The extended Kenyatta family alone, the report said, owned an estimated five hundred thousand acres….Most of the grabbed land was “acquired for little money then resold , most times for a fortune,” the report said.

In the land , people toiled for poor salaries at snake-infested sisal plantations drudged away at crude mines for semi-precious stones.

In Taita Taveta, two families grabbed most of the land: the Kenyatta clan and the immigrant Criticos from Greece.

Other than scattered minor tribal skirmishes here and there, the whole area had experienced nothing but tranquility. People from different regions, tribes, and religions had co-existed with minimal confrontations.

In any case, Mombasa and the whole of the coastal strip had not seen any major war-like activities and had been peaceful since the British forcefully kicked out the Portuguese in the seventeenth century.