Team to name State House plot grabbers
What you need to know:
- Talking to the Nation by phone, Dr Swazuri said the commission’s officers were looking at registration details of plots hived off from State lodges and putting final touches on a report that will reveal the owners of the land in question.
- The NLC chairman and his team, who have just concluded a tour of western Kenya where they were assessing the level of alienation of state land, confirmed that part of land in three sites was in private hands.
- He named Mombasa State House, Mtito Andei State Lodge, Nakuru State House, Eldoret, Kakamega, Cherangany, Kisumu and Rumuruti State lodges as those whose land had been hived off or where attempts were being made to grab the plots.
The National Land Commission Sunday said big names in government and politics were behind the grabbing of land in State houses and lodges.
NLC chairman Muhammad Swazuri said a list of those behind the carving out of state land will be made public once investigations were complete.
Talking to the Nation by phone, Dr Swazuri said the commission’s officers were looking at registration details of plots hived off from State lodges and putting final touches on a report that will reveal the owners of the land in question.
“I can confirm that big names were involved in the illegal allocation of land in Mombasa, Eldoret and Cherangany in Kitale, Trans Nzoia County, and immediately we are through with investigations, Kenyans will get to know who is behind this scam.”
“We have nothing to hide and just like the list of the 22 companies behind the allocation of 500,000 acres in Lamu, those who grabbed land belonging to State House will be made public,” he said.
The NLC chairman and his team, who have just concluded a tour of western Kenya where they were assessing the level of alienation of state land, confirmed that part of land in three sites was in private hands.
He named Mombasa State House, Mtito Andei State Lodge, Nakuru State House, Eldoret, Kakamega, Cherangany, Kisumu and Rumuruti State lodges as those whose land had been hived off or where attempts were being made to grab the plots.
Speaking to the Nation from Cherangany last week, Dr Swazuri said some of the grabbers had started building on the land while others were preparing deed plans for development.
He noted that in Eldoret, they found beams used to hive off the land still fresh, suggesting they were put there recently.
