State loses battle for land meant for city road reserve

A section of the disbuted land in Runda Mimosa. [ Wilberforce Okwiri, Standard]

Failure by the Government to complete compulsory acquisition of land earmarked for the Northern Bypass road reserve has cost the taxpayer millions of shillings.

The Commissioner of Lands is said to have failed to conduct a final survey after compensating original property owners in the 1970s or indicate in the register that a 20-metre stretch of the properties was public land.