Leisure Lodge rallies to protect its land
Mr Ali Omar [left] a security officer at Leisure lodge beach resort confronts a casual worker who was armed with a panga while allegedly invading an eight acre land belonging to the hotel..
The Leisure Lodge management in Diani’s South Coast were yesterday March 3 engaged in a scuffle trying to keep a group of armed youth at bay who wanted to forcefully erect a wall around part of the hotel’s land.
A contractor who said he had been sent by a local investor was intent on putting up the wall, accompanied by the youths. The hotel, on the other hand, had hired a group of its own, ostensibly after calls to police seemed to fall on deaf ears.
The investor wanted to erect a perimeter wall on an eight acre piece of land. But tension was high as both groups confronted each other, with each firm on its course of action.
The youths who were armed with machetes, rungus, bows and arrows vowed not to let the contractor to go ahead with plans of erecting a wall as the land belonged to the hotel.
“We have been hired and we have been directed by the hotel’s management not to allow any development in the land,” said Mr Ali Omari the head of the security team.
Mr Omari said they decided to guard the property after the police ignored their request to do so.
Mr Seif Juma, the subcontractor instead insisted he will continue with the construction and he will only be stopped by a court order.
Mr Juma said several people are scrambling for the land and said he has support from the locals and provincial administration to continue with the construction.
