By JOEL REYIAMore by this AuthorThe government has ordered the Chief Land Registrar to revoke a title deed for a company which has been in illegal possession of community land in the Mara for decades. In a Kenya Gazette notice dated March 1 2019, the National Lands Commission ordered the cancellation of Oloololo Game Ranch Ltd's title, which resulted from a fraudulent adjudication of Oloololo section in Trans Mara West, Narok County. It further ordered that the vast Mara Triangle measuring approximately 26,100ha and be reverted to the Siria Maasai community. MARA RIVERAccording to documents available at the ministry of land, the land was degazetted from the Maasai Mara Game Reserve in 1976 after a delegation from the Siria Maasai community visited the then President Mzee Jomo Kenyatta and requested to be allowed access to the Mara River to water their animals. POLITICIANSLand records show that a title deed, Narok/Transmara/Oloololo/1 was issued on June 22, 1993 in the name of Oloololo Game Ranch Ltd, a company owned two wealthy Narok politicians.

Source: Daily Nation March 05, 2019 14:15 UTC