Anxiety over bill that could kill plots in Kiambu County

Residents of Kiambu County are a worried lot. This is after a new directive by the county government rendered the lifelong plans of many obsolete. According to the directive, houses on plots measuring 40 by 80 feet will be demolished, while no plans will be approved for houses to be built on land less than 0.0045 hectares.

The directive borrows heavily from the proposed Minimum and Maximum Land Holding Acreages Bill 2015. The bill, which was tabled by acting Lands Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i before the Constitution Implementation Commission, has already got policy-makers holding seminars to debate it. The bill proposes a cap on the maximum and minimum acres an individual can own.