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"speaker_name": "Lang’ata, JP",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Nixon Korir",
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"content": "The residents wish to draw to the attention of the National Assembly the following: THAT, we are the lawful owners of all properties situated in the said estates having acquired them for value. Within the said estates, there are approximately 2,000 titles that have been issued by the Ministry of Lands and Physical Planning with over 90 per cent currently occupied by approximately 6,000 households with over 20,000 people living in them. Within the said estates, there are also schools, churches, hospitals, mosques, prison department, dog unit section and other amenities. Within this parcel of land, is situated Saint Mary’s Mission Hospital that treats over 2,000 residents of Lang’ata and Kibra constituencies per day and patients referred from other hospitals especially mothers and baby section of the hospital, which if demolished, will cause untold loss and suffering to the residents of these constituencies. The Government has also provided common utility and services to the property including water, sewerage, electricity and paved roads among others. THAT, all developments within the estate underwent the necessary approvals from the Department of Physical Planning of the County Government of Nairobi and all the requisite building approvals were granted. Routine inspections of the said structures were done by the Government and county government departments such as National Construction Authority (NCA). A substantial number of the residents developed the property through bank finance, Savings and Credit Co-operatives (SACCOs), public sector mortgages schemes such as the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) Mortgage Scheme, Parliamentary Service Commission and Public Service Commission, while others acquired through their retirement benefits. THAT, the residents have had valid possession of the respective properties for over 20 years and a range of transactions over these properties have taken place. Some have charged financial institutions, some have sold and others have subdivided as allowed by law. We have paid duties, taxes and levies to the Government of Kenya for approval of various activities related to our parcels. The County Government of Nairobi continuously received land rates from our respective parcels which we have paid dutifully. In a strange surprise and turn of events, on or around 2nd June 2020, the Cabinet Secretary responsible for the Ministry of Environment and Forestry made media pronouncements alleging that the land where the properties are situated are within Ngong Forest and has threatened to even release wild animals to our estate. The unwarranted threat by the Cabinet Secretary has been followed by continuous aerial and physical surveillance of the area by the Kenya Forest Service (KFS) team with the latter accompanied by a verbal warning to the security guards of the said team expressing the intention to fence off the main gate of the estates with intention to deny residents access to their premises or fence in the residents. The verbal threats by the CS and the KFS have been captured and highlighted by both print and electronic media houses thus questioning the legality of our title documents which the Government validly issued to us. These threats have caused a lot of anxiety among us, the residents of these estates, and thus interfering with the quiet enjoyment of our properties. The residents wish to inform the National Assembly that vide Legal Notice No.44 carried in the Kenya Gazette No.16 of 1998 dated 23rd March 1998, the then Minister for Environment, Mr. Lotodo, altered the boundary of the Ngong Forest Reserve so as to exclude the land occupied by the Sun Valley Phase I, II and III, Royal Park Estate, KMA Estate, Shalom Estate and Forest View Estate. Boundary Plan No.175/368 dated 10th December 1997, shows excision of approximately 53 hectares from Ngong Road Forest. After the gazettement, a survey map was issued by the Survey of Kenya office delineating the boundary of these estates showing that Property LR. No.23256 is subject of the Legal Notice referred to above. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
}