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Friday, January 26, 2024 –Land grabbing activities are highly prevalent in Kakamega County.
Speaking at the Deputy County Commissioner’s Office in Kakamega East on Friday January 26, EACC Spokesman Eric Ngumbi said that Kakamega County is among the counties with a high prevalence of land grabbing.
The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) has since recovered six prime Government properties cumulatively valued at sh 85,000,000 which had been grabbed by private individuals in Kakamega Town, Milimani Estate.
The EACC believes the properties were grabbed in collusion with corrupt land officials.
“One of the properties recovered is the land hosting the official residence of a Deputy County Commissioner whose title deed was registered under a private individual making the Government official a squatter on the Government land,” EACC Spokesperson Eric Ngumbi said.
Mr. Ngumbi told media that the Court has since nullified the titles for the six properties held by private individuals and ordered the Kakamega Land Registrar to issue new Title Deeds in the name of the Government.
The new titles, he said, have been issued and EACC will be handing them over to the State Department of Housing.
“Besides the 6 recovered parcels, EACC is pursuing 20 more grabbed parcels of land in the prime Milimani area.
“The Commission has already filed recovery cases in Court to recover 8 land parcels while 12 parcels are under active investigations for recovery,” said Ngubi.
He added that the Commission is also pursuing criminal investigations against the land officials involved in the fraudulent allocation of Government land.
