Shock as top athlete finds his plot taken

By Standard Reporter

Former 800 metre Olympic Gold champion Paul Ereng recently got a rude shock upon learning his land in Karen valued at Sh35 million has been transferred to another person whose identity remains a mystery.

The transfer of the land, which cost him Sh2 million, was effected on April 24, 1996. Its land registration number is 13815 and IR number 52888, according to documents signed by former Commissioner of Lands Wilson Gachanja.

 “When I launched a search on the circumstances surrounding its transfer, the records at the Registrar of Lands confirmed that the land was actually transferred to the Government of Kenya in exchange of a new grant IR 53467,” Ereng, now head coach at the University of Texas at El Paso in the US, told The Standard on Saturday.

Details about the holder of the grant are scanty, but investigations at the Department of Lands reveal the land whose grant is reflected is somewhere in Kinangop.

Ereng’s lawyer Maina Njonjo had made several enquiries at the AG’s office and the Registrar of Lands without much success.