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Kenya: MP Shifts Blame on Deal With Kerra That Hived Off Private Land

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Maragua MP Mary Wa Maua has distanced herself from the deal where a roads authority has admitted to encroaching on private land in Kamuiru village in Murang’a County.

The Kenya Rural Roads Authority (Kerra) has forcibly cut a public access road through the privately owned land.

Central Region Commissioner Wilfred Nyagwanga said the matter should not have escalated to being brought to the attention of the president had the area government officers strived to resolve the complainants.

Ms Wa Maua said Kerra erred in telling Kenyans that she guided the encroachment.

“Blame the area chief, the Assistant County Commissioner and the District Surveyor. Those are the ones who are responsible for land boundaries,” she said.

Kerra Engineer Mr Shadrack Muoki had told Nation that “the area MP, as our patron, is the one who was responsible for facilitating public participation that came up with the idea that the road is cut through those land.”

Mr Muoki, however, said Kerra was willing to keep off the private land and facilitate the removal of the offending gravel.

The affected farmers own the parcels of land ref numbers Loc17/Iganjo/2204, 1871,1870,1826,2205,4020.

The records at the Murang’a land registry show that the parcels are owned by Julius Kihato, Nahashon Ndung’u, Naomi Wanjiku, Esbon Mucheru, Habel Karanja and James Irungu.

Ms Wa Maua, the local MP, acknowledged that the pieces of land, as cited, are private and titled to the farmers “but there exist some stories that the road in contest was as a result of area ancestors who had mutually agreed to donate it to the neighbours.”