Nairobi County Governor Johnson Sakaja has announced that the devolved unit has launched a joint bid with the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) to recover a 5-acre piece of land in Karen for a waste water plant.
Speaking on Friday, Sakaja revealed that City Hall is keen to recover all public land in private hands.
”We want to thank the Ethics and Anti Corruption Commission for working with us in helping us recover and deal with land grabbers. This is public land that is in use in treating the sewer in this area.”
He said that the county is working with the anti-graft agency to reclaim some more grabbed parcels, saying that 700 grabbed parcels of land have so far been reclaimed.
Last year, Sakaja notified land grabbers, vowing to be relentless in pursuing them.
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In October, he established a task force of county officials with support from the National Lands Commission to identify and repossess all public land in various parts of the city.
The areas marked include Karen, Kasarani areas where Sakaja asserted were notorious for land grabbing cases.
On October 18, the Nairobi County Government reclaimed 18 acres of prime public land at the Junction of Kiambu Road and the northern bypass from land grabbers.
