Take stern action to destroy land cartels

At the weekend, a house belonging to Nazmudin Kurji was brought down in Westlands, Nairobi over an alleged land dispute. Francis Nyaga Njeru appeared in court on Wednesday, but faced no charges.Early this week, reports that there was a plot to grab an estimated 20-acre cemetery land along Mbagathi Road got the City County government swinging into action to fight off what would have been a land grab of monumental proportions.

Last year, a plot to grab Lang’ata Road Primary School playground was thwarted. Everywhere, there is one plot or another to grab land. And it doesn’t matter anymore whether it is private or public land. Land as a factor of production is becoming increasingly scarce.