Group alleges plot to grab Kanu land

By Mwaura Samora

Nairobi, Kenya: More than 300 Kanu members from Kasarani in Nairobi are appealing to their national office to help save a plot belonging to the party from being grabbed.

The group, led by the area MP John Njoroge Chege, yesterday held a demonstration to protest what they termed as harassment by the grabbers.

“There are five individuals who want to sell this piece of land are led by a man who claims to be a Kanu official yet no one elected him,” said chairman of Progressive Traders Association (PTA) Jimmy Iregi.

Fabricated charges

He said the group had also used the police to lodge fabricated cases to intimidate them.

The traders further claimed that the group has been pocketing money from office rent and had allowed sand harvesting on the land.

“Our cry right now is to kindly request our national officials to explain to us who are these officials and who elected them since we are the Kanu members in Kasarani,” the traders chairman explains.

The traders alleged the “Kanu officials”  intend to sell the land to a private developer for Sh30 million to build a petrol station. Efforts to talk to the said Kanu officials bore no fruit as they were not at the Kanu offices.