By The Anchor Writer
Sabaki Residents Association has petitioned the County Assembly of Machakos to intervene against actions to re-plan and allocate land and stop the County Lands Minister Nathaniel Nganga from interfering with a parcel of land LR. 26699/27, public utility land in Sabaki, Mavoko County.
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| Speaker Anne Kiusya |
Petitioners seek an urgent resolution of the matter and the likely loss of public land if no action is taken as a priority. They want the assembly to investigate the matter and stop the CECM from interfering with public utility land within Sabaki Estate without consulting them.
They are also seeking assembly help to preserve their public utility plots in having them used for their intended purposes. Sabaki Residents Associations are also seeking help to reclaim any other plots that may have been illegally allocated, appropriated, occupied, developed, transferred or grabbed.
The petitioners are also calling on the County executive to "undertake comprehensive, meaningful and all-inclusive public participation in all matters relating to public Land"
They seek to "impress upon the County Executive, particularly the CECM for Land, Housing Urban Development and Energy to exercise executive power in accordance with the law by ensuring transparency, openness, accountability and proper use of public office in the administration of public land"
The petition requires the "County Executive to work with Sabaki Residents Association to identify, consolidate, document, title, safeguard and protect all public utility land within Sabaki Estate to the utilized for the intended purposes", rather than going at it as a lone ranger in a property where the locals have a bigger say.
They are also seeking an audit of all development plans within the county to ensure that they have been done legally and procedurally, to meet the people’s needs are coherent and in line with progressive development plans and aspiration and take any remedial measures.
