Embakasi East MP Babu Owino on Friday cancelled the demonstrations scheduled to take place during the day.
Through a facebook post, Babu stated that the protest against NSSF had been temporarily halted after he received new information from the agency.
The controversial politician explained that the organisation had disclosed that it was addressing the matter raised by his office.
According to the lawmaker, the move was to allow the agency to deliver on what it had promised.
“My office is in receipt of written communication from the Acting Managing Trustee of the NSSF and the Law Firm acting on behalf of the NSSF in the processing of land titles. This communication reached us today morning at 8:00am.
We have received written assurances (attached below) that the NSSF is working with the Ministry of Lands to process the documents for our Embakasi East people as fast as possible.
I therefore temporarily suspend the planned demonstrations to give them a chance to fulfill their written pledges. I will however still personally go to these offices to get the personal assurances from the Managing Trustee on this issue. Residents of Embakasi East must get what is due to them without fear or favor.” read the facebook post.
On Thursday, Babu had proclaimed that the demonstrations were aimed towards the removal of the NSSF Chairman and officials from the Ministry of Lands for failing to provide his constituents with title deeds for lands they bought 15 years ago from the agency.
“I will be leading residents of Embakasi East Constituency in a peaceful demonstration that will begin at the NSSF where we will eject the Chairman General Julius Karangi at 9:30 am.
From there, we will head to the Ministry of Lands to eject the officials from office.” stated the Embakasi MP.
The tough talking Babu pointed that the officials had hindered the hardworking residents of the area.
In an interview with Opera News, he added that the people had taken loans to secure the properties that were never handed to them.