Meru County to Kick Out Land Grabbers

Governor Kiraitu Murungi has said that the County Government will start repossessing public land that has been grabbed.
Speaking when he received the land banking report from the Meru County Public Land Committee , Governor Kiraitu noted that some individuals have grabbed public land for their personal use, adding that action will be taken against them.

“As a government we need to know the public land that we have so that we can be able to plan for our future development and woo investors to set up factories and companies which will help our people and grow Meru County economy,” he added.

On his part, Rorgers Ruguthua who chaired the committee said that his team visited all Wards across the county to come up with the recommendations adding that the document indicate clearly what the County Government owns in terms of public land.

Need for the county government to localize the public land and give local community ownership, securing public land through fencing and marking, establishing a data bank where all necessary information will be kept, engaging National Land Commission (NLC) on how to recover and utilize public land, repossessing public land that is in the hands of private investors and preparing a county integrated plan are some of the recommendations that the committee gave.