[Source: The Standard, by Erick Abuga]
The National Housing Corporation (NHC) is fighting to save several of its houses built on a disputed piece of land which the county government wants to repossess.
Those who had purchased the houses now live in fear of losing them should the county government make good its threat to take over the land.
The first phase of the NHC scheme has 40 completed units, some of which have been bought.
Purchasers for the two bed-roomed houses paid between Sh4 million and Sh4.5 million while units Phase Two are being sold at Sh4.2 million.
In a public notice signed on June 14, 2019, by Deputy County Secretary Robert Ombasa, all tenants, owners and any other occupants of NHC phase one and two at Nyanchwa are ordered to vacate the houses within 21 days.
The notice further states that the houses were irregularly constructed on county government public land.
County Lands and Physical Planning Executive Member John Billy Momanyi confirmed that the county was in the process of repossessing the said piece of land.
However, a letter signed on June 17, 2019, by NHC Secretary William Keitany, said the State firm developed the two schemes as part of the its statutory mandate and offered the flats to Kenyans on tenant-purchase arrangement.
Kisii Land Registrar Steve Mokaya promised to give detailed information once he scrutinised the documents on the said land.
[Full article: The Standard, by Erick Abuga]
