The National Land Commission (NLC) has downplayed claims that it has given a prime land in Donholm to squatters. The commission was to clarify land ownership on the contested prime land parcels in the Donholm area of Nairobi that have been plagued by protracted litigation and repeated encroachment by squatters claiming ownership and demanding settlement. The Gazette notice affirms the position it had earlier taken in April 2018 when it disowned ‘’NLC resolutions’’ purporting to award prime parcels of land to self-help groups in Nairobi. Read: Team set up to help public schools acquire title deedsNLC had dismissed the letters, on whose strength two self-help groups were laying claim to land ownership, as forgeries. Latest gazette notice comes as a huge blow to a group of squatters going by the name “Sowesava Self-Help Group” who have long held that NLC issued a determination that allocated them the land.

Source: The Star February 28, 2019 17:37 UTC