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NLC ordered to pay firm Sh713m for land seized for SGR

Squatters from Maganda Settlement Scheme in Jomvu collect their award letters from NLC officials as compensation for their houses to pave way for construction of the Standard Gauge Railway, on July 14, 2015. [File, Standard]

A tribunal has ordered the National Lands Commission (NLC) to pay Sh713 million to a construction company for the forceful acquisition of its land.

The Lands Acquisition Tribunal ordered NLC to pay Sh712,380,000 to Carlisle Development Company Limited within 45 days for the compulsory acquisition of its 7.29 hectares of land in Nairobi in 2014.

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