Kalonzo, Karua accuse senior government official of grabbing retirees' land
The two leaders alongside a section of the retirees said that GSU officers had been deployed to illegally occupy the land that was awarded to the pensioners as settlement for dues owed to them by the Kenya Railways Corporation.
Wiper Party leader Kalonzo Musyoka and People's Liberation Party (PLP)'s Martha Karua have accused a senior government official of grabbing a piece of land, with reference number 209/1064/12345/in Valley Road Nairobi, belonging to Kenya Railways retirees.
In a press briefing, the two leaders alongside a section of the retirees said that GSU officers had been deployed to illegally occupy the land that was awarded to the pensioners as settlement for dues owed to them by the Kenya Railways Corporation.
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"These retirees were sent home by Kenya Railways without their pension. As such, Kenya Railways, pursuant to a Cabinet memo on 4th May 2005, vested in their retirement scheme the subject property," explained Kalonzo
The former Vice President alleged that a senior person in government, with a knack for stealing public land, had managed to deploy the police to kick the pensioners out of the property.
"Under this regime, blatant greed and wanton theft backed by state instruments of power are holding sway over Kenyans. In this case, the poor pensioners have been chased out of their rightful property with a private developer coming in to demolish their houses," stated Kalonzo.
On her part, Karua revealed that the land in question had already been sold by the pensioners with a balance of Sh80 million out of the Sh400 million asking price still due to them.
She also alleged that a powerful individual was behind the land grabbing plot. "Moreover, we have noted a pattern of sending GSU officers whenever his name is mentioned in such cases," she said.
She further pointed to similar incidents where police were deployed to capture public land citing a case in Nainasha's Ndabibi area barely two days ago.
"In Ndabibi, the owners of the land are old people who acquired the land in the 1960s and took possession in 1974. However, the GSU and local police have conspired to keep them out of their land," added Karua.
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