Evicted families paid Sh100m for loss of property
What you need to know:
- Suspected hired goons descended on the 3,000-acre Naivasha/Maiella Farm in August last year and ejected the settlers in line with a Nakuru court order.
- The move would see the Kenya Electricity Generating Company Limited expand its geothermal exploration and exploitation in Narasha, Naivasha constituency.
The Treasury has finally paid Sh100 million in compensation to more than 300 families for property they lost when they were evicted from a farm in Naivasha.
Suspected hired goons descended on the 3,000-acre Naivasha/Maiella Farm in August last year and ejected the settlers in line with a Nakuru court order.
The settlers, most of them herders, lost property worth millions of shillings.
REASON TO SMILE
But after a 14-month wait and some negotiations, the families have a reason to smile after the Treasury released the money.
Energy and Petroleum chief geologist John Omenge, who presided over the cash handover, said the government was keen to ensure that the families “were adequately compensated”.
Mr Omenge said: “The compensation for the households was arrived at after 14 months of hectic negotiations between the government and members of the Narasha pastoral community over the loss of their property.”
The chief geologist said each family would be compensated depending on the value of the property lost.
The amount varies from Sh250,000 to Sh500,000 per household.
The move would see the Kenya Electricity Generating Company Limited expand its geothermal exploration and exploitation in Narasha, Naivasha constituency.
He said 120 families would be resettled on more than 500 acres bought by the government.
The official said the surveying of the land was under way.
