Endao Land Company Limited Chairman Dickson Yatich addressing the media in Nakuru on Wednesday. Photo|Brian Itava]
A group of Endao land owners affiliated to Endao Land Company Limited wants the Nakuru Land Registrar to revoke more than 300 title deeds that the Nakuru Lands registry reportedly issued irregularly to unknown individuals.
The members stormed the Ardhi House in Nakuru seeking an explanation from the area land registrar.
The owners said they jointly bought the 100-acre parcel of land registered as Solai Block 9 in Solai area of Bahati constituency.
They allege that senior officials at the registry, senior administrative officers, and area politicians are complicit in illegal subdivisions of the land and this has seen legitimate members lose out on what should have been their lifetime investment.
Addressing the press in Nakuru Wednesday, the company`s Chairman Dickson Yatich called for urgent intervention from Lands Cabinet Secretary Prof. Jacob Kaimenyi to avert a looming conflict between legitimate and purported grabbers of the land.
“40 members of the Company bought the land with a Ksh 70 million loan acquired from the Agricultural Finance Corporation (AFC) which they have painstakingly repaid and we will not sit back and watch nonmembers subdivide it among themselves," said Yattich.
“Those awarded the title deeds are not valid members of Endao Land Buying Company as none of them has a valid membership document,” he added.
He said in 2006, the company`s directors awarded legitimate members numbered green cards as a document certifying membership and to facilitate the acquisition of valid title deeds.
The registry has since turned the members` quest for title deeds into a circus; none of the valid members has received a title, they said.