The Kenya Airports Authority has been challenged to come clean on allegations that the 600 acres set aside for the construction of an airport in Gilgil constituency have been grabbed.
Area MP Nderitu Mathenge, claims the land which was handed over to the authority in the 1980s has since changed hands and was currently been sub-divided.
The legislator claimed that some county officials were involved in grabbing of the land, adding that he would seek judicial intervention to reclaim it.
“The land was handed over to KAA for the construction of an airport but it deemed unfit as it lay on the path of flamingoes,” he said.
Mathenge said they were shocked to learn that the land in question has since been sub-divided and even sold to influential people with the consent of some county officials.
“We shall be taking the airport authority to court to explain how the land changed hands as it was the custodian,” he said.
Speaking to the press in Naivasha on Wednesday, Mathenge said there was an acute shortage of public land in the constituency.
“We had hoped that the land would be used for the construction of primary and secondary schools but the land has been grabbed,” he claimed.
On Tuesday, the MP and area leaders had challenged Delamere and Marula farms to surrender part of the vast towns in the constituency to allow Gilgil town to expand