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Background: These are the same pieces the government repossessed in 2020


DP Ruto loses 1600 acre land in Nairobi worth billions
Tony Mukere
April 23, 2020 9:27 AM The govt repossesses the land saying it had been grabbed
DP William Ruto loses 1600 acre land in Ruai as government repossess it to build Nairobi main sewerage plant

DP William Ruto loses 1600 acre land in Ruai as government repossess it to build Nairobi main sewerage plant

The troubles facing Deputy President William Ruto appear to be escalating by the day after he lost a 1600-acre piece of land in Nairobi. The land was one of the two ranches repossessed by the government as it seeks to expand the Nairobi sewerage plant which will be built in Ruai. “The government today embarked on an operation to repossess over 3,000 acres of the Dandora Estate Waste Sewerage Treatment Plant, located in Ruai, which has been grabbed by private entities,” the national government said in a statement by Lands and Physical Planning Principal Secretary Nicholas Muraguri, and his Water, Sanitation and Irrigation counterpart Joseph Irungu. Muraguri and Irungu named the affected parcels as LR 28706, measuring 1,605 acres (649.52 Hectares), which is owned by Renton Company Limited. The other parcel of land measured 999 acres (404.28 Hectares).

The 1605-acre bloc was previously owned by Renton Company which is associated with is reportedly owned by Ruto alongside two other former operatives in former President Daniel arap Moi’s government. With an acre of land in Ruai going for about Sh3 million, the value of the land is in the billions. The other block measuring 999 acres was previously owned by former Presidential candidate Cyrus Jirongo who is also Ruto’s former business partner. The repossession, however, is likely to take longer to be effected as the matter is expected to be contested in court with Renton, through lawyer Tom Ojienda, already filing notice to contest the government's decision. The Ruai ranch adds on to Ruto’s land problems as he is already in court fighting to save the Weston Hotel from being demolished by the Kenya Civil Aviation Authority (KCAA).

The National Land Commission had ruled that Ruto pays KCAA Sh210 million for the land where Weston Hotel is built after it was established that the prime land was grabbed. KCAA, however, declined the NLC’s decision and asked the court to allow it to demolish the Weston Hotel and repossess its land as opposed to being compensated for a fraudulent grab.
 
Clemens said:
They got guts, they should just remember, the world is a cycle, what has been degazzeted, can be gazzeted again.
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Land issues in this country have been messy since before independence, and it is not unusual to find illegalities built upon illegalities claiming legal recognition. Clearly, when this land was gazetted in 2020, the objective was not to correct a wrong but to punish a political opponent. If this were not the case, then we might be tempted to ask why the matter became urgent only when the DP became an enemy. Hence, what we are witnessing here is a continuation of political battles fought through public offices. Without a doubt, the acquisition of the land by Renton and Jirongo was full of mysteries and underhand dealings. However, it would require considerable effort to classify it as an outright illegality. Perhaps this explains why both governments chose to gazette and degazette the parcels rather than follow the due court process to revert the land back to the Nairobi County government or the genuine owners.

From the scarce information available online, the history of this piece of land started on February 21, 1964 when a company known as Kayole Estates Limited was granted a freehold title to a parcel measuring 5639 acres. Notice that this was barely a year after independence on December 12, 1963. Similarly, the neighboring 24, 000 acre Embakasi ranch was granted to one Brigadier Wigon on 1st July 1963. Apparently, the departing colonial government was hurriedly granting land to British Citizens so that they could claim compensation under the Independence African government. Therefore, right there we see the seeds of the chaos we witness today.

Later, the Nairobi City Council sought to buy land on the outskirts of the city to settle the landless city residents. Among these purchases was the 5639 acres belonging to Kayole Estates Limited on November 22, 1971. And just like that, a Briton made some good money from thin air. In 1973, this land was sub-divided into 8 parcels. The parcels would later be transferred from the Nairobi City Council to different entities under foggy circumstances. The Embakasi Garrison sits on one of the parcels and has been contested by a company linked to Renton, the Nairobi County government, and the Ministry of Defense. The latest rulings (2023) on this case dismissed Renton’s case outright but guided the Ministry of Defense to sort the issue with the county government.

An except from Kenya colony gazette showing that, at one point in 1952, the colonial government had acquisitioned the Kayole estate land to construct an Airport.
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Mwalimu-G said:
For real?
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At the time of the gazettement in 2020, the Embakasi Garisson was being claimed by the same entities claiming the Ruai land. But the Garisson land claim was contested in court, where it was won this year, with no possibility of a reversal. If a similar process had been applied to the Ruai Sewage land, we would not be witnessing a degazettement today. So yes, it was a shortcut to reach political ends.
 
upepo said:
If a similar process had been applied to the Ruai Sewage land, we would not be witnessing a degazettement today. So yes, it was a shortcut to reach political ends.
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Because the owner negligently forgot to lock his door, the thief had every right to steal the tv
 
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