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How prime Government land ended in the hands of private developers

Closed gate and fenced area of the Controversial land in Community area,Nairobi. [Elvis Ogina.Standard]

The trail of how a Government agency lost prime land in Upper Hill, Nairobi, to a private developer can now be traced.

The National Land Commission (NLC) in 2016 made a controversial ruling granting the 0.63 hectares parcel that had since 1989 been reserved for the National Council for Population Development (NCPD) to a private developer, even after acknowledging that the same had come in to their possession irregularly.

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