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Moi, Mama Ngina
in Ndung'u land report
DAILY NATION
Story by DAVID OKWEMBAH and MBURU MWANGI
Publication Date: 12/17/2004
The families of former presidents
Jomo Kenyatta and Daniel arap Moi feature prominently in the list
of those who have grabbed public land that is now recommended for
repossession.
The annexes to the Ndung'u report
released yesterday contain the names of Mr Moi and five of his
children, Mzee Kenyatta's widow Mama Ngina and scores of MPs, top
civil servants, military officers, High Court judges and former
Cabinet ministers.
Lands and Housing minister Amos
Kimunya last week caused an uproar after releasing the report on
grabbed land compiled by the Paul Ndung'u Committee without the
names.
But yesterday the two massive
volumes, measuring 10 centimetres and at 2,017 pages are thicker
than two telephone directories, were released by the Government
Printer.
They contain names of all those who
have been irregularly allocated public land in urban areas,
settlement schemes, forests and reserves.
The report recommends that retired
President Moi's 937 hectare farm in Narok hived off Trans Mara
Forest be repossessed.
According to the Ndung'u Report,
the excision of Kiptagish Farm from Trans Mara Forest in 1988 was
illegal. Among President Moi's children who were illegally
allocated land include Baringo Central MP Mr Gideon Moi and his
wife Zahra, Raymond Kiprotich, Doris Choge and Jonathan Toroitich.
The report also recommends that
allocation of various parcels to Mama Ngina Kenyatta be revoked.
It includes 38 hectares hived off
the Kikuyu Escarpment Forest in Kiambu District in 1965.
Another 36 hectares in Thika
District from the same Kikuyu Escarpment forest allocated to her
in 1980 for farming could also be reclaimed, as well as another 24
hectare parcel allocated in 1993.
Cabinet ministers, judges and top
soldiers are among beneficiaries of settlement schemes carved out
of Agricultural Development Corporation farms.
The allotees are minister of State
William ole Ntimama, assistant minister Kipkalya Kones, Court of
Appeal Judge Emmanuel O'Kubasu and deputy chief of general staff,
Lt Gen Nick Leshan.
Mr Ntimama was allocated 34 acres
of Moi Ndabi Farm where Mr Leshan got 233 acres.
Mr Kones got 145 acres in the
Agricultural Development Corporation Sirikwa scheme where the
average allocations were five acres, says the report.
Mr Justice O'Kubasu got 40 acres of
ADC Jabali also in Nakuru. His land is in the ADC Sirikwa scheme
in Nakuru District.
A public figure who got more than
the average is Mr Justice William Tuiyot (since dead). He got 85
acres in the ADC Sirikwa scheme. Retired Judge Mbito was also
allocated 50 acres of the ADC Zea, while a former commissioner of
prisons, Mr Edward Lokopoyit is stated in the report to have got
90 acres of the land.
Former MPs Joseph Kimkung (Mt
Elgon) and Jesse Maizs got 30 and 15 acres respectively in the ADC
ZEA area. Former Principal Immigration Officer Henry ole Ndiema
got 50 acres and a house in the same area.
A former permanent secretary, Mr
William Kimalat got 80 acres of ADC Jabali, while a former top
policeman Stanley Manyinya got 130 acres in the same area. Former
PC Ishmael Chelang'a (since dead) got 90 acres.
Former MPs G. G. Mokku, Japheth
Ekidor, Immanuel Imana, Mr David Sudi, Boaz Kaino and Francis
Mutwol also benefited.
Mr Kaino got 50 acres, Mr Imana 25,
Mr Ekidor 20, Mr Mutwol 10 and Mr Sudi 20 from the ADC Milimani
land.
Many top soldiers and also clerics
are among those listed as having been allocated the land. Most of
the Moi Ndabi land was allocated by the director of lands.
Another prominent figure in the
list is Kerio Central MP Nicholas Biwott who could lose the 161
hectares in Kaptagat forest allocated in 1994 for the Maria Soti
Education Trust.
Mr Biwott and industrialist Mr Manu
Chandaria are trustees of the education trust established in
memory of the former Cabinet minister's mother.
Another former minister, a former
head of the civil service and a former permanent secretary stand
to lose about 1,170 hectares of land hived off South Nandi Forest
in 1999.
The three, Mr Henry Kosgey, Dr
Sally Kosgei and Mr Zakayo Cheruiyot were to exchange the land
with farmers on a hilly terrain. But the report says that there is
conflict in the exchange as the Ngerek community, which was
supposed to benefit, was left out.
The family of former Lands and
Settlement minister Jackson Angaine, may lose more than 900
hectares of land hived off from Mount Kenya forest in 1975 and
1977.
Limuru MP Mr Kuria Kanyingi is
named as the beneficiary of a 24 hectare farm carved out of Kiambu
Forest in 1984. The Ndung'u report notes that a title deed was
issued for only 15 hectares to Kama Agencies in 1995. It
recommends that the allocation to the MP should be revoked.
In Nairobi, all those allocated
parts of the Ngong forest and Karura Forest in the 1990s will have
to part with them after the Ndung'u Committee recommended that
they should all be revoked.
The beneficiaries include Mathioya
MP Joseph Kamotho, former Cooperative Bank of Kenya chairman,
Hosea Kiplagat, former Commissioner of Police Shedrack Kiruki and
Maj-Gen Humphrey Njoroge.
Also named in the report is former
Comptroller of State House John Lokorio who appears as a
beneficiary in settlement schemes in Nakuru District including the
Nakuru/Olenguruone/Kiptagich extension.
Also in the same scheme is Mr
Kiplagat, Mr Samson Cheramboss who once headed President Moi's
security detail, former nominated MP Mr Mark Too, former Moi aide
Joshua Kulei and former head of Presidential Press Service Lee
Njiru.
Others named include former CID
boss Mr Francis Sang, former managing director of Telkom Kenya Mr
Augustine Cheserem, former minister William Morogo and Eldama
Ravine MP Mr Musa Sirma and his wife.
Former MD of the National Cereals
and Produce Board Major (Rtd) Wilson Koitaba, former land
commissioner Mr Sammy Mwaita received 10 plots and the deputy
governor of the Central bank Dr Edward Sambili was allocated 7
hectares.
Mr Gideon Moi and his wife got the
biggest chunk of 44 hectares.
Other beneficiaries are former PS
Dr Nehemiah Ng'eno, Dr Julius Rotich who had been named as one of
the anti-corruption authority assistant directors, another former
PS Mr Mark Bor, Cooperatives PS Mr Solomon Boit, Deputy police
commissioner Mr David Kimaiyo and the chaplain of Kabarak high
school Rev Jones Kaleli.
Baringo North MP William Boit,
director of Motor Licensing Simon Kirgotty, director of survey Mr
H. H. Nyapola, security intelligence deputy director Mr Shukri
Baramade and Administration Police commandant Kinuthia Mbugua also
got land illegally.
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