The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission is one of the most focused institutions due to its power to nab and end enormous graft crimes in the country. Well it has since revealed that 19 corruptly acquired Public Assets worth sh 2.7 billion in the past four months.
Among the property that were recovered in the period include University of Nairobi land situated along Galana Road that had been grabbed and allocated to a private company by the name of Aberdares Engineering Contractors Limited.
“Through the Alternative Dispute Resolution mechanism, the said parcel of land valued at Sh2 billion was recovered and on the 29th of January 2019 handed back to the University of Nairobi,” he said.He added a land belonging to KPA pension scheme in Kikambala and valued at Sh 378 million was recovered through ADR.
In Nakuru, the commission recovered public land that had been grabbed by private developers. One of the parcels of the land had been reserved for Survey Camp Nakuru Municipality.
“This parcel was recovered through a court process where the court gave judgement in favour of the Commission and two properties are valued at Sh 42 million.The commission said two parcels of land belonging to Muslim Primary School, Nakuru Municipality Block valued at Sh 16 million were also recovered.
Parcel of land belonging to Postal Corporation of Kenya in Nakuru town valued at Sh150 million was also recovered in March 2019.
For the two million residents of Nakuru, the pain of seeing their county sink into a pit of corruption and mismanagement of public resources in the first five years of devolution is something they would not like to be repeated in Jubilee’s second term.
While other counties with less resources have made remarkable steps since 2013, residents of County 32 have in the past years been watching an open-air film dubbed: Nakuru’s Sinking Devolution Ship.
Do you think the EACC can help them witness real change.