The Mombasa County government has filed an application of urgency at the Mombasa High Court to block any form of construction from taking place at the controversial 5-acre-piece of land which has been the center of controversy.
Mombasa County government has struggled to stop the erection of a perimeter wall on the piece of land, but the developer, under the protection of police had defied all orders and insisted on the construction, a move which has locked them in a conflict.
Mombasa County land Executive Francis Thoya said the county government had not authorized any form of construction, and therefore the developers should pull off their machines to allow the conflict to be resolved.
"I have filed an application, I want to stop everything until the case of this controversial land will heard at the same court," said Thoya on Monday.
On the other hand, the National Land Commission has also intervened to resolve the prolonged standoff between defiant squatters and a private developer on the said piece of land.
NLC chairman Mohammed Swazuri, who distanced himself from the one week conflict said files of the controversial land where over 500 squatters were evicted cannot be traced in the Mombasa land registry.
Swazuri suspected the field could have been hidden by potential influential people who want to continue grabbing public land.
“The commission has no powers to evict squatters, those orders came from other people but not NLC, we have not ordered that," reiterated the national land chair.
This is even after a court ruling indicated that the piece of land belonged to the Kenya Petroleum Refineries, a decision that sparked running battles between the squatters and the private developer.