Saitoti allocated 210 acres of ADC farm, House told

A Cabinet Minister was allocated 210 acres of land intended for the landless and squatters in Molo District in the final years of the Kanu regime.

Agriculture Assistant Minister Kareke Mbiuki told Parliament Internal Security Minister George Saitoti received the land between 1995 and 2000 when the Government sold most of the estimated 12,000 acres of the Molo Agricultural Development Corporation (ADC) farm to settle the landless and squatters from land clashes in the Rift Valley in the mid 1990s.

Spirited effort

Saitoti, a former Vice-President under former President Moi, was not in Parliament when the Assistant Minister tabled a list with the minister’s name.

Internal Security Assistant Minister Joshua Orwa Ojode spiritedly tried to have Saitoti’s name expunged from the record by arguing the list was not signed.

Mbiuki said "the name GK Saitoti in the list" he had tabled and disclosed was lifted from the Ndung’u Commission Land Report and Managing Director of the remaining bit of the ADC Farm and promised "to sign the list I have tabled at the end of (Parliament) proceedings today".

Amid protests from backbench Ojode accused Mbiuki and Nyambati of depicting "my minister as a squatter".

Ojode then attempted to suggest that the ‘GK Saitoti’ named in the Mbiuki list may not be the Internal Security Minister but MPs shouted back that the GK refers to the minister’s names "George Kinuthia".

The minister rarely uses the name Kinuthia, preferring instead Saitoti.

 

 

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