The Mombasa County government will not tolerate the grabbing of public land, Deputy Governor Dr William Kingi has said.
Kingi, who spoke when he led a team from the county government in an assessment of county projects in Likoni sub county on Tuesday in the company of area MP Mishi Mboko said Governor Hassan Joho's administration will counter suspected land grabbers head on and ensure all grabbed public land is reprocessed.
"The people of Timbwani Ward have been grumbling over the propensity of land grabbing in the area by unknown developers who are erecting illegal structures to the chagrin of the people," Dr Kingi said.
"These developers are forcefully acquiring acres of public land, committing criminal acts of trespass and assault in the process, and as a government we shall not sit pretty as these grabbers deprive our citizens the right to development."
By encroaching on public land, he said the grabbers take up space set aside for development projects by the County government within the sub county.
"We shall not allow these land grabbers to deter us from delivering on our promises, we shall not condone illegal structures on public land, we shall as well not hesitate to bring down any illegal structures on public land in accordance with the law," Kingi said.