HC Deb 23 February 1955 vol 537 c153W
50. Mr. Elwyn Jones

asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies how many inhabitants of Kenya have been moved under the villagisation procedure; how many homes have been burned during villagisation operations; upon whose lands the displaced persons have been settled; and what provisions have been made as to the land evacuated.

Mr. Lennox-Boyd

About 600,000 persons have been moved. 150,000 huts, evacuated and stripped by their owners of usable material, have been destroyed, in some cases by fire, to deny their use to terrorists. The villages are built on clan land, and the inhabitants continue to cultivate their own original holdings. No land has been evacuated.