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| Elizabeth Ongoro |
Officials from a land grabbing cartel disguised as a self-held group, Drive in Self- Help group, has gone into panic mode after The Weekly Vision exposed them for putting up structures on grabbed land without the owners’ consent in Ruaraka, Nairobi. The group was exposed in Part One of the series we are running on this forum.http://theweeklyvision.blogspot.co.ke/2018/05/powerful-forces-behind-francis-mburus.html They are behind woes facing businessman Francis Mburu in the National Assembly, The Senate and the Ethics and Anti-corruption Commission, EACC.
http://theweeklyvision.blogspot.co.ke/2018/05/powerful-forces-behind-francis-mburus_11.html
Last weekend, the officials who are often at loggerheads due to business and political rivalry, held a night meeting at LEX BAR, owned by a well-known land grabber, popularly known as SHOTI due to his height, to discuss possible ways of resisting the possible demolition or eviction of the illegally constructed buildings and other structures on the land.
The deliberation centered on possible legal redress, offers to compensate the land owner Mr. Francis Mburu and a possibility of roping in top politicians to defend the grabbing. The first was shelved given that self-help groups that are un registered have no legal capacity to own land. The second option was equally dismissed as the land value in the prevailing market rate is far out of reach to most of these professional squatters as they have been aptly described by the chairman of the National Land Commission, following investigations by the DCI.
Whether to go the political way as they have always done was discussed at length and the matter left to a member of parliament and politicians who were present to pursue further.
But the bravery in tackling this cartels exhibited by the no nonsense officials from the National Lands Commissioner could further throw their plans into disarray .The only option left for the cartels is to quietly fade into oblivion since those who bought into the properties are up in arms since they were given determination letters that have since been declared illegal by the NLC. Some of the faces that attended the night meeting at Lex Bar are:
Waihenya Ndirungu – Roysambu MP, Jubilee party politician, Elizabeth Ongoro – former nominated Senator ODM party politician, a senior official at State House – a beneficiary of several plots, was represented, Pastor John Nduati, Lee Muchiri – Roysambu Jubilee party politician and John Majiwa -former mayor of Nairrobi ODM party.
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