Makindu: March, 29, 2023
Minister Cancels
sticky allotments
The Makueni Department of Lands and Urban Planning has initiated plans to revoke allotment of 54 acres of land in Kiboko B settlement scheme.
It is claimed that the land in Kimboo village, was allocated in a controversial manner.
The decision by Lands Executive Committee Member Sonia Nzilani to revoke the allotments stems from a 2015 National Land Commission advisory that the land allotted to some absentee ‘squatters’ in 1999 be subdivided and allotted afresh to at least 41 squatters who had settled on it.
The re-allocation was carried out in 2019 for PLOT NO.718 KIBOKO ‘B’, PLOT NO.719 KIBOKO ‘B’, PLOT NO.720 KIBOKO ‘B’.
It is alleged that the process was hijacked by a cartel of unnamed wealthy individuals who have since worked on evicting the rightful squatters from the three parcels of land.
Today, Dr. Sonia visited the land and met residents during which she announced the recommended revocation of the 2019 re-allocation exercise.
She said the land will be re-allocated afresh to the list of squatters identified by NLC in 2015 and other deserving ones after a thorough verification exercise.
