Residents In Court Over Use Of President Ruto’s Name In Dispossessing Their Land
Some houses in the land in question. Above them is the Kenya Power Transmission wires.
By Our Reporter
More than 1,200 residents of a Nairobi estate have moved to court seeking an injunction against a top government agency boss and a politician who are alleged to be using the name of President William Ruto to take over their land.
The residents of Mugumo-ini area in Dam Estate, Lang’ata says that a local politician identified in court papers as Saja Muraya has been intimidating, harassing and coercing them in order to leave the prime piece of land that is adjacent to Dam Estate and Sunshine Secondary School.
According to am affidavit filed before the National Environmental Management Authority Tribunal, the said politician has loped in several other people, led by the NEMA Director General Mamo B. Mamo to frustrate their peaceful stay in the estate where some have lived for over 30 years.
They say some settled in the area in 1990 with another group moving there in 2008 after they were displaced during the Post Election Violence.
The affidavit signed by one of them, Zablon Kibe and certified by lawyer Mathias N. Kamau, the hundreds of dwellers were given the Temporary Land Occupation license during the late Mwai Kibaki administration. The land, they avers, lies on the electricity way leave and has no Title deed as claimed by the politician.
They claim that the said politician acquired three fake title deeds for the property which belongs to the government and want action taken against him and other perpetrators.
Through an application to the tribunal, the residents say that the politician has colluded with NEMA officials to have them evicted under the guise of living in the riparian of the nearby dam, a matter they claim is false since their houses are more than 300 metres from the area in question.
On February 13th, the residents were issued with 14-days vacation notice, which they want the court to halt.
They claim that the two claim that the land in question which, also houses a church and a school has been sold to a relative of the Nema boss.
One of their prayers in the court papers read in part, “a permanent injuction is issued restricting Nema, Saja Muraya and Mamo B. Mamo and their agents from evicting, attaching, seizing, auctioning or charging the suit properties, L.R No. 209/14438 or interfering with the peaceful occupation of the plaintiffs and their families”.
The other prayer states, “that permanent injuction is issued restraining Muraya and Mamo from using the name of President William Ruto to disposses people and sell public land to private individuals using fake title deeds”.
The case will be heard on Thursday.
Similar Posts by The Mt Kenya Times:
- Where compassion, creativity, and education unite
- Nyeri youth reap big in Nick Mararo dancing competition
- Nyeri youth group in roasting and packing
- Nyeri’s call for proactive leadership: Reviving a legacy of national impact
- Attachees or office slaves?
About the Author
