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OLJORAI IN GILGIL, BANITA IN RONGAI: BLOOD AND SOIL
DRAMATIC FOOTAGE 22-05-15:
Oljorai Settlement Scheme in Gilgil, Nakuru County.''
On 22-05-15, one reads: Oljorai Settlement Scheme in Gilgil, Nakuru County.''
But this is a land story in Kenya where, in 2015, His excellency the Presidents illegally award fake title deeds in public {Bomet university plot} . So you gotta know you looking at a lot of smoke, and you gotta peer at what may not immediately be visible.
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Earlier on: if you type ''Oljorai Settlement Scheme in Gilgil, Nakuru County.'' you could get some background: like Oops, Charity Ngilu was here! Don't ask me what she did and how she left the NLC! But I can assure you she has very terrible toilet manners, and I wouldn't rush to declare a small office she has exited healthy for human enclosure!
www.citizennews.co.ke/index.php/kabete-by-elections/root/news/2012/local/item/29220-fear-anger-and-desperation-as-nakuru-odm-chair-opens-fire-at-journalists.html
Who is this Osono, apart from being an ODM local official?
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What the hell?
REMEMBER this other stranger than fiction story from the settlement scheme: BANITA, RONGAI DISTRICT, NAKURU COUNTY?
Banita Settlement Scheme in Rongai District, Nakuru County
Rift Valley Keriako Tobiko wants exhumation case reopened
By VINCENT MABATUK Updated Tuesday, April 22nd 2014
Nakuru, Kenya: Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Keriako Tobiko has directed police in Nakuru to urgently investigate an incident where a teacher was maliciously charged with exhumation of a body.
Dan Ashitiva, a primary school teacher, and five others were arraigned before a Nakuru court in 2011 and charged with the offence but the case was dismissed for lack of evidence. In his letter to Nakuru County Police Commander John Koki, Tobiko said investigations must be concluded and the real culprits brought to book.
Ashitiva had been charged alongside Amos Konyae, who was then a driver with Rongai Constituency Development Fund, Sylvester Totona, an official with CDF, Musa Chemitei, Kimunai Ole Kemeiwa and Francis Thuo. They were charged after a body was exhumed at a controversial settlement scheme in Rongai, Nakuru County. Ashitiva wants Nakuru County Secretary (then Rongai District Commissioner) Joseph Motari, Banita Location Chief Julius Wasike, Solai Division Teachers Service Commission official Karuga Irungu and ex-Councillor Joel Nyandieka investigated.
Read more at: www.standardmedia.co.ke/thecounties/article/2000109965/tobiko-wants-exhumation-case-reopened
That was Peter Ole Sono in 2013: Chair of the squatters' ressettlement committee. And now, apar from being a kind of ''baba yao?'' --seen here ''hurling missiles'!
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LAND FOOTNOTES:
www.standardmedia.co.ke/?articleID=2000107596&story_title=turf-wars-thwart-land-reforms
More juicy stories on land to follow. Betty juicy than bloody. For stories about land can be real bloody affairs, even to the rank of genocide.
DRAMATIC FOOTAGE 22-05-15:
Oljorai Settlement Scheme in Gilgil, Nakuru County.''
On 22-05-15, one reads: Oljorai Settlement Scheme in Gilgil, Nakuru County.''
www.nation.co.ke/news/politics/ODM-Nakuru-branch-chairman-shoots-at-journalists/-/1064
Six Nakuru journalists on Friday escaped death by a whisker after an enraged ODM party branch chairman shot at them. The journalists had gone to the controversial Ojlorai settlement scheme in Gilgil to cover a land dispute when Peter Ole Osono opened fire. They had gone to find out if a public road that had been closed down by politician was opened as directed by the National Land Commission. NLC chairman Dr Muhammad Swazuri told Nakuru County Commissioner to immediately open the road since its closure was greatly inconveniencing hundreds of school children.
Six Nakuru journalists on Friday escaped death by a whisker after an enraged ODM party branch chairman shot at them. The journalists had gone to the controversial Ojlorai settlement scheme in Gilgil to cover a land dispute when Peter Ole Osono opened fire. They had gone to find out if a public road that had been closed down by politician was opened as directed by the National Land Commission. NLC chairman Dr Muhammad Swazuri told Nakuru County Commissioner to immediately open the road since its closure was greatly inconveniencing hundreds of school children.
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Earlier on: if you type ''Oljorai Settlement Scheme in Gilgil, Nakuru County.'' you could get some background: like
20 October 2014:
Oljorai residents deny claims of giving land back
Residents of Oljorai settlement scheme in Nakuru County took to the streets to protest over claims by the National Land Commission (NLC) that they have surrendered their land. The more than 400 angry residents said that the media reported that the residents from the scheme in Gilgil had surrendered their land to the Kikuyu community.
The over 8,000 acres of the disputed land at the scheme is owned by the Maasai and Turkana communities.
The reports claimed that the Maasai group had agreed to give back the 8,000 acres of land back to the Kikuyu Nyakinyua-Solai community.
The meeting is said to have been chaired by NLC vice chairperson Abigael Mukolwe in Kimende, Lari sub-county of Kiambu County.
However, during the protest, Eburru MCA Jane Simita dismissed claims that they met with the Kikuyu community on Monday in Limuru.
Simita told journalists that Mukolwe met with a group of five people in Limuru, who claimed to be officials of Oljorai farm.
Simita said if the matter is not resolved within a short time, the tension in the area could lead to a clash between the two groups.
Simita said, “NLC commissioners have been working with rogue officials and former land brokers from their groups.”
“NLC should ensure the people they are working with are not imposters if they want to solve historical land issues,” added Simita.
Oljorai residents deny claims of giving land back
Residents of Oljorai settlement scheme in Nakuru County took to the streets to protest over claims by the National Land Commission (NLC) that they have surrendered their land. The more than 400 angry residents said that the media reported that the residents from the scheme in Gilgil had surrendered their land to the Kikuyu community.
The over 8,000 acres of the disputed land at the scheme is owned by the Maasai and Turkana communities.
The reports claimed that the Maasai group had agreed to give back the 8,000 acres of land back to the Kikuyu Nyakinyua-Solai community.
The meeting is said to have been chaired by NLC vice chairperson Abigael Mukolwe in Kimende, Lari sub-county of Kiambu County.
However, during the protest, Eburru MCA Jane Simita dismissed claims that they met with the Kikuyu community on Monday in Limuru.
Simita told journalists that Mukolwe met with a group of five people in Limuru, who claimed to be officials of Oljorai farm.
Simita said if the matter is not resolved within a short time, the tension in the area could lead to a clash between the two groups.
Simita said, “NLC commissioners have been working with rogue officials and former land brokers from their groups.”
“NLC should ensure the people they are working with are not imposters if they want to solve historical land issues,” added Simita.
www.citizennews.co.ke/index.php/kabete-by-elections/root/news/2012/local/item/29220-fear-anger-and-desperation-as-nakuru-odm-chair-opens-fire-at-journalists.html
Osono is reported to have defied last week’s directive by the National Land Commissioner chairman Mohammed Swazuri to open a public road that he had closed for private development.
While issuing the directive, the commission’s chairman instructed the County Commissioner to ensure that Nakuru County ODM Chairman David Ole Osono opens the road or face prosecution in defiance.
Swazuri, who was in Nakuru to officiate the swearing in of the Nakuru County Land Management Board, intimated that his commission will not be cowed by a few individuals who claim to have “connections” with top government officials.
This directive came after Eburu Mbaruk Ward MCA Jane Simita raised a complaint from members of the public who have been forced to use long routes to access basic services due to closure of the public road.
Simita added that some government officials in Gilgil had been protecting the private developer to the extent that he has disobeyed three court orders.
Ole Osono has constantly been accused of illegal selling of land in Oljorai and on several occasions
While issuing the directive, the commission’s chairman instructed the County Commissioner to ensure that Nakuru County ODM Chairman David Ole Osono opens the road or face prosecution in defiance.
Swazuri, who was in Nakuru to officiate the swearing in of the Nakuru County Land Management Board, intimated that his commission will not be cowed by a few individuals who claim to have “connections” with top government officials.
This directive came after Eburu Mbaruk Ward MCA Jane Simita raised a complaint from members of the public who have been forced to use long routes to access basic services due to closure of the public road.
Simita added that some government officials in Gilgil had been protecting the private developer to the extent that he has disobeyed three court orders.
Ole Osono has constantly been accused of illegal selling of land in Oljorai and on several occasions
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Land speculators eyeing a former State corporation’s property in Nakuru County risk losing millions of shillings in bogus transactions.
Various groups, targeting the more than 8,000-acre Oljorai farm in Gilgil, are said to be “pumping” in lots of money, thinking that they were entering a genuine transaction to acquire the highly valued agricultural potential land.
Local leaders have warned the public against being duped into purchasing the land which has been in dispute for more than 20 years.
“We are aware of a syndicate in which some influential individuals have transacted sale agreements for Oljorai farm without the consent of the bona fide members,” said Mr Paul Chebor, the Solai County Representative.
Various parties have been in and out of court laying claim to the former Agricultural Development Corporation land, that was disposed of by the Kanu regime for settlement of squatters in the early 1990s.
Various groups, targeting the more than 8,000-acre Oljorai farm in Gilgil, are said to be “pumping” in lots of money, thinking that they were entering a genuine transaction to acquire the highly valued agricultural potential land.
Local leaders have warned the public against being duped into purchasing the land which has been in dispute for more than 20 years.
“We are aware of a syndicate in which some influential individuals have transacted sale agreements for Oljorai farm without the consent of the bona fide members,” said Mr Paul Chebor, the Solai County Representative.
Various parties have been in and out of court laying claim to the former Agricultural Development Corporation land, that was disposed of by the Kanu regime for settlement of squatters in the early 1990s.
18-10-2014: Oljorai locals deny land deal claims
BY IRENE WAIRIMU
MORE than 400 resi-dents of Oljorai Settlement Scheme in Gilgil, Nakuru county have denied surrendering the 8,000 acre land. On Thursday, the residents dismissed claims they handed over the land at a ceremony witnessed by the National Land Commission officials in Nakuru. They accused the NLC of meeting with imposters to force reconciliation among communities fighting over the land. .
BY IRENE WAIRIMU
MORE than 400 resi-dents of Oljorai Settlement Scheme in Gilgil, Nakuru county have denied surrendering the 8,000 acre land. On Thursday, the residents dismissed claims they handed over the land at a ceremony witnessed by the National Land Commission officials in Nakuru. They accused the NLC of meeting with imposters to force reconciliation among communities fighting over the land. .
What the hell?
18-10-2014
Oljorai Maasai Scociety chairman Matingoi ole Koonyo said the three communities held long talks before arriving at the decision.
"These days, fights do not yield anything but losses. We all agreed to give the land back to the community because we learnt they are the rightful owners," Koonyo said.
NLC vice chairperson Abigael Mukolwe asked for the list of members' names and surveyors' reports so they can process title deeds for the ranch.
But yesterday, Eburru MCA Jane Simita said some NLC commissioners have been working with rogue officials of their group and land brokers who have since been replaced in an election.
She said Mukolwe met with a group of five people in Limuru, who claimed to be officials of Oljorai.
"We wonder how the commission will help solve historical land issues when they cannot undertake due diligence in checking if the people they are dealing with are bonafide officials or imposters," Simita said.
The group warned of heightened tension in the area following media reports from the Limuru meeting that they had surrendered their stake to the land in favour of Lari Nyakinyua Company Ltd.
"If the commission does not intervene hurriedly and meets with the bonafide officials, this situation might lead to a clash between members of the two groups," Simita said.
She said NLC should convene a meeting at the settlement scheme to get the views of the residents and to seek a solution to the crisis.
allafrica.com/stories/201410200692.html
Oljorai Maasai Scociety chairman Matingoi ole Koonyo said the three communities held long talks before arriving at the decision.
"These days, fights do not yield anything but losses. We all agreed to give the land back to the community because we learnt they are the rightful owners," Koonyo said.
NLC vice chairperson Abigael Mukolwe asked for the list of members' names and surveyors' reports so they can process title deeds for the ranch.
But yesterday, Eburru MCA Jane Simita said some NLC commissioners have been working with rogue officials of their group and land brokers who have since been replaced in an election.
She said Mukolwe met with a group of five people in Limuru, who claimed to be officials of Oljorai.
"We wonder how the commission will help solve historical land issues when they cannot undertake due diligence in checking if the people they are dealing with are bonafide officials or imposters," Simita said.
The group warned of heightened tension in the area following media reports from the Limuru meeting that they had surrendered their stake to the land in favour of Lari Nyakinyua Company Ltd.
"If the commission does not intervene hurriedly and meets with the bonafide officials, this situation might lead to a clash between members of the two groups," Simita said.
She said NLC should convene a meeting at the settlement scheme to get the views of the residents and to seek a solution to the crisis.
allafrica.com/stories/201410200692.html
REMEMBER this other stranger than fiction story from the settlement scheme: BANITA, RONGAI DISTRICT, NAKURU COUNTY?
Banita Settlement Scheme in Rongai District, Nakuru County
Rift Valley Keriako Tobiko wants exhumation case reopened
By VINCENT MABATUK Updated Tuesday, April 22nd 2014
Nakuru, Kenya: Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Keriako Tobiko has directed police in Nakuru to urgently investigate an incident where a teacher was maliciously charged with exhumation of a body.
Dan Ashitiva, a primary school teacher, and five others were arraigned before a Nakuru court in 2011 and charged with the offence but the case was dismissed for lack of evidence. In his letter to Nakuru County Police Commander John Koki, Tobiko said investigations must be concluded and the real culprits brought to book.
Ashitiva had been charged alongside Amos Konyae, who was then a driver with Rongai Constituency Development Fund, Sylvester Totona, an official with CDF, Musa Chemitei, Kimunai Ole Kemeiwa and Francis Thuo. They were charged after a body was exhumed at a controversial settlement scheme in Rongai, Nakuru County. Ashitiva wants Nakuru County Secretary (then Rongai District Commissioner) Joseph Motari, Banita Location Chief Julius Wasike, Solai Division Teachers Service Commission official Karuga Irungu and ex-Councillor Joel Nyandieka investigated.
Read more at: www.standardmedia.co.ke/thecounties/article/2000109965/tobiko-wants-exhumation-case-reopened
By John Harrington Ndeta,
During the reign of Amos Kimunya as Lands Minister; a declaration was made in Nakuru over Banita Farm. It is this declaration that has bolstered the disagreements between communities over land. “What are allotment letters; these are just papers,” said the Lands Minister. The Minister was referring to the allotment letters issued by former President Moi to the squatters on Banita farm when the white settler; Harry Holmes, who had leased the over 14000 acre vast-land handed it over to Government.
The bigger picture is that there is a bone of contention between the two protagonist communities in Nakuru County over land ownership in the vast settlement scheme. The nitty-gritty however is that there is widespread discontents amongst the squatters who feel cheated out of their inheritance; the former sisal plantation farm where they labored and were allotted when their boss Harry Holmes left.
In July this year, the Cabinet formed a Taskforce of Parliament to investigate recent security incidents and land disputes at the scheme. Whether Parliament task force ever carried out this assignment or not is a matter for another day!
Peace building initiatives undertaken by PeaceNet Kenya and other partners in Nakuru County highlights a host of issues in relation to Banita farm. The trouble in Banita farm is the actual ownership of the 14000 acre piece of land. Who owns what, where, why how the 5 are key question that must be answered fully if Banita is to attain peace.
peacenetkenya.or.ke/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=222:conflict-hotspot-what-really-ails-banita-farm-in-nakuru&catid=3:newsflash
The second thorny issues are that of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). The Government is said to have bought land in Rongai to resettle IDPs. The locals led by political leaders are heavily opposed to this issue insisting that the Government should give priorities to the squatters and landless natives in that area before bringing in people from outside. The resettlement of IDPs has now taken political dimension with electoral undertones of stakes being pulled to consolidate voting blocs in relation to new boundaries ...
During the reign of Amos Kimunya as Lands Minister; a declaration was made in Nakuru over Banita Farm. It is this declaration that has bolstered the disagreements between communities over land. “What are allotment letters; these are just papers,” said the Lands Minister. The Minister was referring to the allotment letters issued by former President Moi to the squatters on Banita farm when the white settler; Harry Holmes, who had leased the over 14000 acre vast-land handed it over to Government.
The bigger picture is that there is a bone of contention between the two protagonist communities in Nakuru County over land ownership in the vast settlement scheme. The nitty-gritty however is that there is widespread discontents amongst the squatters who feel cheated out of their inheritance; the former sisal plantation farm where they labored and were allotted when their boss Harry Holmes left.
In July this year, the Cabinet formed a Taskforce of Parliament to investigate recent security incidents and land disputes at the scheme. Whether Parliament task force ever carried out this assignment or not is a matter for another day!
Peace building initiatives undertaken by PeaceNet Kenya and other partners in Nakuru County highlights a host of issues in relation to Banita farm. The trouble in Banita farm is the actual ownership of the 14000 acre piece of land. Who owns what, where, why how the 5 are key question that must be answered fully if Banita is to attain peace.
peacenetkenya.or.ke/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=222:conflict-hotspot-what-really-ails-banita-farm-in-nakuru&catid=3:newsflash
The second thorny issues are that of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). The Government is said to have bought land in Rongai to resettle IDPs. The locals led by political leaders are heavily opposed to this issue insisting that the Government should give priorities to the squatters and landless natives in that area before bringing in people from outside. The resettlement of IDPs has now taken political dimension with electoral undertones of stakes being pulled to consolidate voting blocs in relation to new boundaries ...
Posted Thursday, October 10, 2013 | by- SIMON SIELE
Alert out over sale of land in decades-old row
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Representatives of 900 members of Solai-Ruiyobei farm have sued their directors for allegedly being behind an illegal sale of 2,000 acres.
They have obtained temporary orders from Lady Justice Waithaka (issued on October 3), to restrain the six defendants from entering, occupying or in any way interfering with the land in dispute.
Gilgil district commissioner has also been served with the orders alongside the defendants in the case: Mr Richardson Bundotich, Mr Charles Olari, Mr Joseph Lenginch, Koilel Laramatak Self-help group, Lari Nyakinyua (Solai Farm) and Jata Housing company.
Those sued were asked by the court to surrender company documents under their disposal including title deed, company seal for safe custody pending the determination of the case.
There has been agitation from various quarters seeking resettlement in the property with some of the disputes translating into a bloody confrontation.
Some squatters formerly working for ADC sitting in the farm were recently rendered homeless when their makeshift houses were flattened by a group of hired goons.
According to the victims the raid took them by surprise and claims to have lived in the area for over 15 years.
But a Nakuru trader, Ngari Mucoki, who owns part of the 110-acres, accused the IDPs of encroaching on part of his land.
Chairman of the squatters’ resettlement committee Mr Peter ole Sono accused the government of hoodwinking them with promises of resettlement.
Alert out over sale of land in decades-old row
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Representatives of 900 members of Solai-Ruiyobei farm have sued their directors for allegedly being behind an illegal sale of 2,000 acres.
They have obtained temporary orders from Lady Justice Waithaka (issued on October 3), to restrain the six defendants from entering, occupying or in any way interfering with the land in dispute.
Gilgil district commissioner has also been served with the orders alongside the defendants in the case: Mr Richardson Bundotich, Mr Charles Olari, Mr Joseph Lenginch, Koilel Laramatak Self-help group, Lari Nyakinyua (Solai Farm) and Jata Housing company.
Those sued were asked by the court to surrender company documents under their disposal including title deed, company seal for safe custody pending the determination of the case.
There has been agitation from various quarters seeking resettlement in the property with some of the disputes translating into a bloody confrontation.
Some squatters formerly working for ADC sitting in the farm were recently rendered homeless when their makeshift houses were flattened by a group of hired goons.
According to the victims the raid took them by surprise and claims to have lived in the area for over 15 years.
But a Nakuru trader, Ngari Mucoki, who owns part of the 110-acres, accused the IDPs of encroaching on part of his land.
Chairman of the squatters’ resettlement committee Mr Peter ole Sono accused the government of hoodwinking them with promises of resettlement.
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LAND FOOTNOTES:
www.standardmedia.co.ke/?articleID=2000107596&story_title=turf-wars-thwart-land-reforms
Nairobi, Kenya: President Uhuru Kenyatta’s intervention remains the only solution to the raging row between Lands Cabinet Secretary and the National Land Commission, experts on land matters say. The President, land experts say, should take firm action and restore sanity in the Ministry of Lands, while institutions with oversight authority on the ministry and the land commission (like Parliament) should also dig in. But legal experts, led by the Law Society of Kenya (LSK) chairman Eric Mutua want the commission to seek interpretation of the Supreme Court to resolve differences between it and the Cabinet Secretary.
Operations in the ministry have heavily been affected due to turf wars between Lands Cabinet Secretary Charity Ngilu on one hand and the chairman of the NLC Dr Mohamed Swazuri on the other.
Read more at: www.standardmedia.co.ke/?articleID=2000107596&story_title=turf-wars-thwart-land-reforms
Operations in the ministry have heavily been affected due to turf wars between Lands Cabinet Secretary Charity Ngilu on one hand and the chairman of the NLC Dr Mohamed Swazuri on the other.
Read more at: www.standardmedia.co.ke/?articleID=2000107596&story_title=turf-wars-thwart-land-reforms
More juicy stories on land to follow. Betty juicy than bloody. For stories about land can be real bloody affairs, even to the rank of genocide.