Cartel colludes with civil servants to grab Nakuru utility lands – Weekly Citizen

Fifteen plots at Kongasis in Nakuru county meant for public utilities have allegedly been grabbed.
The grabbed land includes a primary school, a slaughter house, a market and an early childhood education centre.
Speaking to these newspaper, Eburru-Mbaruk MCA Samuel Kariuki termed the allotments as illegal and advised residents who knowingly occupied public land to surrender it within a month.
It has emerged that the issue is being handled by the Directorate of Criminal Investigations after an audit was conducted and identified the culprits who have illegally taken over the land.

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Recently, Kariuki teamed up with former civic leader Peter Ole Nduguya to calm irate residents at the trading centre who said some of the public utility plots had also been earmarked for jua kali sheds, a dispensary, a mosque, a church and public social hall.
Ole Nduguya called for the disbanding of a development committee that had been appointed to oversee implementation of World Bank funded projects in the area.
Cartels have been stealing the plots and selling them to unsuspecting Kenyans. Surprisingly, the said cartel had bribed and infiltrated the development committee. We have information that some of the illegally acquired land had been set aside for World Bank funded infrastructure upgrade projects. Locals say the committee cannot be trusted to discharge its mandate transparently and efficiently.
Not spared by the grabbers are empty spaces, proposed parking zones and sewer sites targeted by the powerful land grabbers.
Already, Nakuru governor Lee Kinyanjui wants those who had been issued with public land to surrender them. “There are people who were either knowingly or unknowingly were given public land. We are calling on them to hand it back and no action will be taken against them,” he said.
The governor said the county had the support of the government on the issue of repossessing grabbed public land.
It is emerging that civil servants facilitated the fraudulent transfer of public property to individuals.