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Kenya: Nairobi Assembly Seeks DCI Probe Into Grabbing of Prime City Plots

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The Nairobi County Assembly now wants the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) and the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) to investigate the grabbing of four parcels of public land by private developers.

This is after a report by the assembly’s Public Investments Committee (PIC) revealed that the land belonging to the Nairobi City Water and Sewerage Company (NCWSC) had been grabbed by private developers colluding with unscrupulous officials of the water company.

The parcels in question belong to the Loresho Water Reservoir, Kariobangi North sewerage and treatment works, Ruiru dam and a water booster station located off Kabete Road meant for the expansion, storage, and water and sewerage treatment works.

“The managing director of Nairobi Water Company is directed by the committee to do a letter to the DCI and EACC for thorough investigations within thirty days and the officers who were alleged to have colluded with the land grabbers be investigated and charged before a court of law,” read the report adopted by ward reps on Tuesday.

LAND ALLOCATED TO GROUPS

The report revealed that the Kariobangi North sewerage and treatment works land has been allocated to several groups, including Kariobangi Sewerage Farmers Self-Help Group, Provincial Administration (chief’s camp), Our Lady of Fatima Secondary School, Alice Nursing Homes and Kariobangi Catholic Church for construction of a polytechnic.

This happened though records on the allocation, survey and subdivision of the land were not provided for audit review, making it difficult to verify the purported subdivision and allocation.