By Gastone Valusi
Members of the Komarock Housing society are about to settle a long-running despute over their land following resolutions reached by members at a recently convened Annual General Meeting.
The land in question has been subject to court cases which have dragged on for over a decade but now the society is set to turn a new chapter, according to the society Lawyer Mr Bernard Mung'ata.
Mr Mung'ata said the issue surrounding part of the land, about 23 actares which had initially been under compulsory acquisition by the government through the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation,had been resolved and the rest of the land was now by law supposed to revert to the community.
"We had a Annual General Meeting "for the Komaroc Housing Society where the Status Report on the Komarock land was issued.Some sticky issues have been ironed out and the members have mandated me to go ahead and complete the resolution of the despute and I assure them in a few months the despute will be resolved,"said Mr Mung'ata.
Mr Mung'ata said he had also held consultations with former Machakos County Senator and current United Democratic Alliance Chairman Johnson Muthama who has been pushing for the rights of the Komarock members for a long time.
"The history of the land is that part of it, about 23 actares had been compulsoryly acquired by KBC and that purpose has now been exhausted and the rest of the land is by law required to revert to the community,"said Mr Mung'ata adding that land for public utilities including a University had been set aside.
Mr Mung'ata observed that the cooperative movement in Machakos was under threat due to diminished land resources adding that many of the societies were premised on availability of land resources which are now under pressure due to increased settlement.
The other challenge facing the cooperative movement,Mr Mung'ata said,was infighting for leadership of the cooperative movement.
