(English) January 14, 2013
Tension is high in the volatile area of Maella Naivasha after APs evicted several families from a piece of land. The heavily armed officers raided Ngambani village destroying property worth thousand of shillings.
Maize crops were destroyed during the early morning eviction supervised by senior AP officers. The officers said the land in question had been set aside for the construction of an AP post.
Families affected threatened to hold a demonstration and called on Lands minister James Orengo to intervene as the issue has raised anxiety in the area.
One of the victims, Mzee Karino ole Nakuro, said he had lived in the area for more than20 years when his family were kicked out. He said that during the eviction, he lost property worth more than Sh400,000 and was contemplating going to court.
“The land was sub-divided recently but no one has told us that the land belongs to the AP and the exercise caught us by surprise,” he said.
Karino added that during the exercise, three of his houses, a granary and a water tank were destroyed while all his crops were uprooted. But a senior officer who declined to be named said that during the sub-division of the vast Ng’ati farm, the piece of land had been earmarked as an AP post.
“The families have been given several notices to vacate from the land to pave way for the construction of the AP post but they failed,” said the officer.
Source: The Star
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