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Petitioners act against land grabbing in Mavoko

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.

Speaker Anne Kiusya

The Speaker Anne Kiusya has committed the petition to the Lands and Energy Committee to report back to the Assembly within sixty calendar days. The petitioners’ want the assembly to resolve 9 grievances against the County Executive's alleged infringement on their land rights.

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.

10 Machakos Inspectorate suspects released on bond

By Anchor Reporter

The 10 County Askaris held over the assault of a civic leader Boniface Maeke have been released.

They are to pay a cash bail of Kes 20,000 each or execute a bond of Kes 100,000.

This is as they await the outcome of police investigations into the incident that happened within the precincts of the Machakos Law Courts.

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Senior Principal Magistrate Magistrate James Ombirah also ordered the suspects to appear in court on February 29 for mention of the case.

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 suspects were also ordered to report to the Machakos Police Station on today to resume interrogation in the case where the MCA was stripped of his trousers and violently robbed of cash and a mobile phone.