Residents demonstrate as grabbers eye Church and a Children’s Home land!
Huruma MCA KImani Wanjohi addressing Shauri Residents who were demonstrating against land grabbers.
A section of irate members of Shauri Estate in Huruma ward ,Uasin Gishu County, Saturday demonstrated against attempts by three known individuals bent on grabbing a two acre piece of land belonging to the IPHC church and a children’s home.
Led by Bishop Daniel Kwatuha of the International Pentecostal Holiness Church,the community claims influential individuals working with cohort with some of the Uasin Gishu County government officers under the Ministry of Lands, were tirelessly working hard to grab the parcel of Land that has been owned by the Church for the last 23 years,
Bishop Daniel Kwatuha of the International Pentecostal Holiness Church
“The IPHC Children’s home was opened in the year 2006 and in 2007 it hosted many street children and those that had lost their parents as a result of the 2007 Post election violence, as a church we were in the process of constructing a Vocational institute to help not only our children but the community within here with basic vocational skills”Said Bishop Kwatuha.
We obtained an approved plan to construct a fence around the church property, unfortunately County askaris under the directives from the CEC Lands in Uasin Gishu took away the approved plan purportedly saying the land was disputed, immediately thereafter goons arrived and tried to fence off portions of the land into plots,we have every reason to believe the grabbers are working in cohort with some rogue county officers. He added
Huruma ward MCA Kimani Wanjohi has called out three individuals led by a former Personal Assistant to an MCA in the said ward, and some other two shrewd business people believed to be hatching a plot to grab two acre piece of land,
“We know them by their names,we are aware of their plot to grab this land but not under my watch,we are putting on notice the Uasin Gishu Land registrar and we ask the relevant government agencies to investigate the registrar and land commissioners who may have been working with land grabbers in Eldoret and other parts of the country”Said Hon Wanjohi.
A section of the IPHC children’s Home
Wanjohi who had been promised a section of the land by the said grabbers affirmed that he will not let down Huruma ward residents who have suffered land grabbing for a very long time and especially the widows,
“I will be on guard we will not allow this to go on , I assure Huruma and Shauri residents we will fight for their rights ,we want government to protect genuine land owners”
Uasin Gishu Governor Jonathan Bii ,Friday decried increased cases of grabbing of Public Utility by powerful and influential people and asked members of the public to watch over Public land.
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