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Joel Ogada
HRD, Member
Malindi Rights Forum (MRF)
Joel Ogada is a farmer and member of the Malindi Rights Forum (MRF), an organisation working to protect land rights of farmers in Marereni, Kilifi County. The establishment of salt extraction companies along the coastline in the region has raised conflict between residents and the salt factories due to claims by the farmers that they have been evicted and displaced from ancestral lands by the factories. Community leaders and human rights defenders have been threatened, arrested and been the subject of judicial harassment.