EACC Recovers Grabbed Land Price Ksh 85M in Kakamega

Ethics and Anti-Corruption Fee (EACC) has heightened its crackdown on land grabbers, by recovering six prime authorities properties valued at Ksh85 million in Milimani Property, Kakamega. 

The fee claimed the six land parcels had been grabbed by non-public people in collusion with corrupt land officers.

EACC spokesperson, Eric Ngumbi, chatting with Kenyans.co.ke revealed that one of many recovered parcels of land belonged to Kakamega East Deputy County Commissioner. 

“Six properties have been recovered and one is the present official residence of the Kakamega East Deputy County Commissioner. We may as effectively say that he has been 1 / 4 on the federal government lands,” Eric Ngumbi, EACC spokesperson said.

Ngumbi on the similar time raised considerations in regards to the rising instances of land grabbing in Kakamega County, noting that the fee remains to be pursuing 20 different parcels of land within the prime Milimani space.

The Courtroom already ordered the land registrar in Kakamega to challenge new title deeds for recovered land which will likely be forwarded to the State Division of Housing. Ngumbi hoped that related success could be witnessed with the opposite focused parcels. 

He additional hinted that EACC will go after officers on the Ministry of Lands accused of corruption and colluding with perpetrators to facilitate land-grabbing instances.

“No single individual has the appropriate to enter a authorities workplace and allocate themselves the land and their rights for themselves,” Ngumbi additional warned.

The land restoration workout routines intently comply with the demolition of homes in the identical space to pave the best way for the federal government’s Reasonably priced Housing programme.

Former Cupboard Secretary Ambassador Amina Mohammed was amongst these affected by the demolitions after bulldozers introduced down her house on January 9 this 12 months. 

Whereas chatting with the media, the caretaker of the home lamented that the demolishers raided the compound by way of the fence and didn’t present any paperwork to show they had been authorised to convey down the constructing.