Share [Source: The Standard, by Erastus Mulwa] Dozens of people who claim to have been evicted from Ruai and Mathare 4A in Nairobi have now invaded a 1,200-acre property in Matungulu, Machakos County. The land has been the subject of long-standing ownership row pitting the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC) against the Komarock Housing Society. Yesterday, individuals…
Share [Source: Daily Nation, by Vincent Achuka] The government has started evicting hundreds of people who had bought property next to the disputed 3,000-acre piece of land that was dramatically repossessed last week to pave way for the expansion of the Dandora Sewerage Treatment Plant in Ruai, Nairobi. This comes as Deputy President William Ruto denied…
Share [Source: Daily Nation, by Joseph Wangui] A housing development company has lost ownership of a prime piece of land in Malindi to squatters as the legal principle of adverse possession continues to trip up clueless land owners. Fort Properties Ltd lost a 142-acre parcel to a group of 240 squatters after the Environment and Land…
Share [Source: The Standard, by Renson Mnyamwezi] The process of settling thousands of squatters living on the disputed Teita Sisal Estate in Taita Taveta County has started. Surveyors have been deployed to excise the disputed land in the vast farm on the outskirts of Mwatate town to settle more than 3,000 squatters. This is after the national and county…
Share [Source: Daily Nation, by Kalume Kazungu] Several squatter families in Lamu are crying for justice following their recent eviction from a disputed piece of land said to belong to Egerton University. The more than 10 families have now been forced to put up camps by the roadside in Mikinduni, Mkunumbi Division in Lamu West since…
Share [Source: The Standard, by Peterson Githaiga] Ukambani leaders have appealed to President Uhuru Kenyatta to intervene in a land row pitting squatters against the East Africa Portland Cement Company. The leaders, who visited Mavoko in Machakos County on Sunday, want the president to save squatters from evictions from the contested land planned for later this…
Share [Source: The Standard, by Peterson Githaiga] Thousands of squatters living on the disputed East Africa Portland Cement Company land in have called for a quick alternative dispute resolution as recommended by a Ministry of Land taskforce committee. The 12-member committee handed over the report on the state of the land on May 8. The taskforce…
Share [Source: Daily Nation, by Brian Ocharo] A land dispute pitting Mombasa-based televangelist Wilfred Lai of the Jesus Celebration Centre against squatters, some of whom also happen to be members of his church, has spilled into the courts with each party accusing the other of invading the suit property. The dispute now puts at stake the…
