Njiru farmers beneficiaries deliberate at their 100-acre land in northern bypass off Kamiti road
By Felix Njenga
Worth Noting:
- “We are happy to report that the council in it’s 350 the meeting finalized on the matter and found that the member to have committed a professional infraction of breach of the code of conduct and ethics,” read part of report.
- Efforts to reach out at Okumu for a right of reply were futile since he did not respond to phone calls or messages by the time of going to press.
- In 2021 a Kiambu court issued orders barring the chief land registrar Nairobi, Director Survey of Kenya from effecting transfers, subdividing or issue deed plans on 100 acre piece of land belonging to the 21 families.
Families owning 100 acre piece of land in Nairobi have called upon the Cabinet Secretary for Lands Alice Wahome to intervene in the subdivision of the land so as to wade off grabbers who have set in on the land.
The 21 families plea is after Institution of Surveyors of Kenya (ISK) has found a surveyor to have committed a professional breach of code of ethics by illegally subdividing parcel L.R No. 13166 IR 27109 Kamiti road situated next to Membley estate in Ruiru.
Benson Okumu a registered surveyor was reported by the families in 2023 where the complaint was received by ISK and was summoned by Rose Mwaura chief executive officer to explain his involvement on the land despite having a court restriction on the land.
ISK, through acting Chief Executive Officer Augustine Munialo replied to the families who are farmers that they have found the subdivision of the land to be illegal and necessary action will be taken against Okumu.
“We are happy to report that the council in it’s 350 the meeting finalized on the matter and found that the member to have committed a professional infraction of breach of the code of conduct and ethics,” read part of report.
Efforts to reach out at Okumu for a right of reply were futile since he did not respond to phone calls or messages by the time of going to press.
In 2021 a Kiambu court issued orders barring the chief land registrar Nairobi, Director Survey of Kenya from effecting transfers, subdividing or issue deed plans on 100 acre piece of land belonging to the 21 families.
The orders were issued by Kiambu Senior Principal Magistrate Stella Atambo where a Miscellaneous Application was filed by the beneficiaries of the land asking the court to bar the respondents from conducting any activity on the land until a pending court case of the land be heard and determined.
In the application, Mathini Githatu also a respondent in the matter was given the same orders by the court. The order gave powers to OCS Kahawa West police station powers to ensure that no further constructions and developments are made on the land.
The Chief Land Registrar Nairobi and Director of Survey of Kenya failed to honour court summons by Kiambu court as ordered by Chief Magistrate over the land matter.
The two were to appear in court to explain why they failed to comply with court orders but instead sent legal officers from their respective departments, but the court declined to hear from the legal officers until the respondents appear in court personally.
The summons had been issued because Chris Gatemo investigating officer in the DCI had been denied access to information by the respondents on which he is investigating a fraud case of 100 acre land belonging to Njiru farmers along northern bypass.
The investigating officer had earlier informed the court that he had been visiting the two government offices and was not facilitated with information he wanted hence the orders of summons being issued.
The matter being investigated is the illegal subdivision through the government offices over 100 acres of land belonging to 21 families as per the title deed which is still a block title deed and is said to have been lost in the land registrar office Nairobi.
The Title Deed owners, in a letter addressed to the then former Lands Cabinet Secretary Farida Karoney, wanted illegal issuance of Title Deeds stopped.
The letter stated that illegal subdivision of land had been carried out by unknown persons acting on behalf of the surveyor of Kenya and wanted the process cancelled but the instructions were not adhered to.
The families were left in a dilemma of subdividing the land amongst themselves after the original title deed and green card was lost at the lands office though through search, the land is still registered under Njiru Farmers Company which comprises the 21 families.
The families claim that the land was handed to them in 1972 by founding father President Jomo Kenyatta as an exchange from their original land in Njiru, Nairobi.
They said that land grabbers using fake Title Deeds started trolling in claiming ownership and started constructing rental houses which made them go to court to bar them from entering the land.
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