The government is acquiring thousands of hectares to put up a
new military facility within the wildlife rich
Mara Triangle in Narok County, with a single individual owning more than half the land set for a big pay day.
Mara Triangle in Narok County, with a single individual owning more than half the land set for a big pay day.
Some 1,400 hectares are targeted with 819 hectares owned by John Kiragu Wambugu.
The announcement was contained in a gazette notice published last Friday.
“In
pursuance of sections 112 and 162 of the Land Act, 2012, Part VIII, the
National Land Commission (NLC) on behalf of the Ministry of Defence
gives notice that the National Government intends to acquire the
following parcels of land for military use in Narok County,” it said.
The
gazette notice invited the affected Mr Wambugu together with 16 others
to visit NLC’s offices at Ardhi House third floor and on 1st Ngong
Avenue in Nairobi.
The
affected land is in Lemek and Olkenyei areas and hosts luxury lodges
within private wildlife conservancies located next to the world famous
Maasai Mara Game Reserve. Kenya’s Defence Forces own large tracts of
land in various parts of the country with most of it acquired during the
colonial era.
The Defence ministry has not disclosed the intended use of the vast chunk of land.
The
government has been on a land acquisition spree in the past decade with
land bought along the 472 kilometre Standard Gauge Railway(SGR) route
from Nairobi to Mombasa as well as the planned SGR phase two section
along the 120 kilometre Nairobi-Naivasha route.
The
government has also been acquiring land for construction of dams, and
expansion of key roads across the country as well as establishment of
new airports.
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