To my friends the CORDed, land injustices is not about
Jubilee but the whole nation. At the rate we are pointing figures we are losing
it. Historical land injustices have been committed by many and we must be
truthful in our dealings. Those leaders
who are in the opposition today benefitted from patronage and I will quote the
Ndung’u report and Kenya Land Alliance report of Unjust Enrichment. The
following is not my work but extracts from KLA-Unjust Enrichment and Ndung’u
Report:
ON ODINGA FAMILY: (page 23)
Kenya Food and Chemical Corporation Limited: The Kenya Food
and Chemical Corporation Limited of Kisumu,
more commonly known as the Kisumu Molasses Project was conceived in the
1970s and was intended to manufacture
gasohol from sugar cane molasses
produced by sugar factories in Nyanza and Western provinces. This
controversial project was cited in the Ndung’u Report as an example of how
State corporations were mismanaged , and ended up in receivership or
liquidation which then paved the way for land and other assests to be sold at
throw away prices or simply be allocated to favoured individuals. According to
the Report, land for the project was compulsorily acquired by the government in
1976 at Ksh 4m. The project then stalled
in 1980 after hundreds of millions of shillings had been sunk into it. In 2001,
the then Commissioner of Lands, S.S.K. Mwaita, illegally allocated the 112
hectares of the land meant for the corporation to a private company for Ksh.3.7
Million or Ksh. 33,000 per hectare. The Company, Spectre International Limited
is associated with the Odinga family. At a conservative price of Ksh. 300,000
per acre, the land would have been worth Ksh. 83 million. The beneficiaries of
this allocation may therefore have been unjustly enriched by Ksh 80 million.
ON KALONZO MUSYOKA:
Nothing did I find in both reports.
ON FRED GUMO: (page 22 of report)
Central Bank of Kenya -
purchased a plot reserved as a public parking off Haile Selassie avenue
for Ksh300million . The plot had earlier been illegally allocated to a company associated with Fred
Gumo- the sitting MP for Westlands and former assistant
minister.
FRANCIS NYENZE-(page 17 of report)
Who benefited most from the illegal allocations of KIE land? The
single largest beneficiary of the allocations was Viscount Holdings. While the average
allocation was 0.2 acres, this one company received 14.66 acres valued at 58.6 million in Nairobi LR 209/94699478.The
directors of Viscount Holdings are Kiran
Kotecha and Jayesh Morjario. Past directors include Monarch Insurance Company. Other
“luminaries” as they are referred to in Kenya’s political lexicon were: Benjamin Kipkulei who was allocated 10 of the 31 plots in
Eldoret; Hosea Kiplgat was allocated 5 plots of the 34 plots in Kabarnet in
addition to 2 plots in Eldoret. Other prominent beneficiaries include- John Lokorio ( Kabarnet), LawrenceMasaviru ( 2 plots in Kakamega) ,
Joshua Angatia ( Kakamega), Noah arap Too ( Kericho), Japhet k Muasya ( 2 plots
in Kitui), Francis Nyenze ( 2 plots
in Kitui), Prof Raphael K Munavu (Tala- 1plot), John Sambu( 3 plots in Eldoret)
The full list of allottees can be found at
http.//www.knchr.org/ndungu/table3.
The above are but few who play critical roles in the
opposition. Part of the Ndung’u and KLA-Unjust enrichment reports recommend: Where a State corporation sold land at
below market value or purchased land at exorbitant prices, theprime movers of
such sale (directors of the corporation, original allottees, other public officials
or brokersand professionals) should be investigated and prosecuted. . The money
lost by the State Corporation as aresult of such purchase should be recovered
from those who were unjustly enriched.
I will not justified land grabbing by officials of Jomo’s
government or Moi’s government which was notorious with loss of parastatal
land. All am saying is CORD’s leadership is part of the historical injustices
and I dislike hypocrisy. If Jubilee has thieves, Cord has their own
thieves!!!!! You can down play the magnitude but thieving is thieving. Until we
start telling each other the truth, partial vendetta will only be informed by
ethnic hatred for the reason of political expedience.
Ochengo Onguso is a Graduate of
Political Science and Public Administartion and Philosophy from The
University of Nairobi. He is also a Law student from the same
institution.
He is the Chairman of the Board of Directors, Intellectus Consultancy
melchym1@gmail.com
Ochengonguso@intellectusconsultancy.com
