Sacco sues over land adjacent to techno city
What you need to know:
- Cooperative chairman David Mutangili Wednesday said in Nairobi the ministry’s decision was skewed, oppressive and interfered with the citizens’ right of land ownership. He said the move would result in the loss and damage of private properties.
- Sacco members urged the court to allow them to file a request to quash the decision of the director of physical planning and de-gazzette a moratorium of Konza Technocity buffer zone as a special planning area.
A cooperative society wants the High Court to revoke the Ministry of Land’s decision to apportion a 17,479-acre piece of land next to the proposed Konza techno city as a wildlife migration corridor.
Konza Ranching and Farming Co-operative Society Limited told Justice George Odunga that the ministry ignored their proposal on how to partition the parcel to which they currently claim ownership.
Skewed, oppressive
Cooperative chairman David Mutangili Wednesday said in Nairobi the ministry’s decision was skewed, oppressive and interfered with the citizens’ right of land ownership. He said the move would result in the loss and damage of private properties.
“In February 2014, the director of physical planning Augustine Masinde issued a notice of moratorium for Konza technocity and 10 square kilometre buffer zone as a special planning area which effectively seals members’ ownership fate without their consent,” said Mr Mutangili.
Sacco members urged the court to allow them to file a request to quash the decision of the director of physical planning and de-gazzette a moratorium of Konza Technocity buffer zone as a special planning area.
Mr Mutangili said he had severally held meetings with Lands Cabinet Secretary Charity Ngilu and Mr Masinde at Ardhi house with the hope of them revoking the entire approval and but his efforts have bore no fruit.
