By The Anchor Reporter
The guards were posted yesterday on the day Machakos Governor Wavinya Ndeti revealed she send r esidents to pull down fencing on the property.
The 7 guards are posted about 40 meters apart from each other on the Machakos- Nairobi Road, only few meters from the Nairobi-Mombasa Highway.
During the incident revealed by the governor, a fence was pulled down allowing fuel wood merchants to invade the property to moore down the trees.
A stone wall that had fenced the triangle section was knocked down by a hired private bulldozer that also tried to level the land. Residents carried away the stones.
One of the guards told The Anchor that they had been instructed to ward off people entering the 260 acres property previously owned by a white settler. He did not know who hired them.
Part of the land lies across the road and forms a triangle at the junction and runs for over 200 meters along the Highway.
It is believed that its lease may have expired, hence the competing interests of conflicted grabbers and greedy government officials.
