Justice for Settlers: Sheria Mtaani Fights for Land Loan Interest Waiver in 26 Counties
In their application under a certificate of urgency filed by Sheria Mtaani by lawyer Shadrack Wambui, they want the Cabinet Secretary Memorandum dated November 11, 2025, to be implemented.
A lobby group has moved to the High Court, Environment and Lands Court in Milimani, urging the court to compel the Cabinet Secretary, Ministry of Lands, Public Works, Housing, and Urban Development, to waive accrued interest on loans against the settlement schemes parcels of land.
Pending the hearing and determination of the application, they urge the court to declare the waiver as contained in the Cabinet News dated November 2025, as being legal, and an order vide the resolutions arrived at by the Cabinet on the referred Cabinet News.
Also, the National Lands Commission(NLC) is to be decentralized to have one-post branches across all the counties to enable the citizens residing there get clearance for their land-related matters.
Further, they want the court to compel the respondents to ensure a refund to all low-income settlers for the paid interests and penalties accrued thereon after the duration for implementation of the said Cabinet Resolution lapsed.
In their application under a certificate of urgency filed by Sheria Mtaani by lawyer Shadrack Wambui, they want the Cabinet Secretary Memorandum dated November 11, 2025, to be implemented.
The memorandum stated that a waiver on accrued interest and on loans taken against the settlement schemes parcels of land by low-income settlers in 520 settlement schemes across around 26 counties.
They state that, the reasons provided, among others, were to enable the low-income settlers in the said schemes offset their loans and interest therefrom accruing so that they can resettle elsewhere and be self-sufficient in the line’s of the Government’s Bottom-Up economy agenda.
They accuse the Principal Secretary in the State Department for Land, Public Works, Housing and Urban Development, the Cabinet Secretary in the said Ministry of willingly abdicating their duties to see the implementation of the aid resolution.
Jointly with Danstan Omari, they state that, “Since the memorandum was issued, it is now three months, but nothing has acted upon it.” They want the period to be extended to two years.
