The Bukusu community from Trans Nzoia and Bungoma counties will sue the British government.
The community wants compensation for lives and property lost during colonisation and the fight for independence.
Bukusu leader Nixon Kukubo, who is behind the move, yesterday said the community’s lawyers are ready for the task.
“Lives and property were lost as a result of the British massacres on the community yet no compensation has ever been paid,” Kukubo said.
He said many lives were lost during the Lumboka massacre of 1894.
The community also wants compensation for the 450 killed by British colonialists in the Chetambe massacre of 1895.
During the 1948 Malakisi massacre, members of the Dini ya Musambwa were killed by the colonialists.
“We need a compensation of Sh3 trillion since our people were humiliated and killed under the colonial administration. Some lost property like land as a result of the war,” Kukubo said.
Squatters in Trans Nzoia are planning to sue the British government for violation of labour rights during colonialism.
They say they were left in abject poverty.
The squatters, who spoke under the Trans Nzoia Squatters’ Generation Forum, said they want the court to help them “find answers to pertinent issues”.
“We want the British government to tell us if there were any benefits set aside for our parents when the settlers left the country,” said forum chairman Cosmas Nabungolo.
Nabungolo said they will further petition the National Assembly to have county governments address the plight of all squatters across the country.
“We want MPs to find a solution to the landlessness menace among squatters. This matter has for long been left unresolved,” he said.
