Nanga-Kihoto Land Buying Company is set to hold elections.[Photo/Tesma]
Troubled Nanga-Kihoto Land Buying Company from Naivasha is set to hold elections after 30 years.
The elections were ordered by the High Court to create a way for the sub-division of the farmers’ 2,323 acres located off the Naivasha-Kirima road.
The elections will be held in Gatanga Catholic Social Hall in Murang’a, after a prolonged court battle among members of the company.
The elections come a month after the members urged the President to intervene over the prime parcel of land whose case has dragging on in the High Court.
Outgoing officials obeyed the court order stating that this would enable the members to exercise their democratic right.
“We are calling on all members of Nanga-Kihoto Land Buying Company to turn up in large numbers this Friday and elect their new officials,” said Francis Muheria the company director.
Mr Muheria noted that they were ready for the elections.
“Some of the members have died while waiting for justice but we are happy that after years of waiting we are about to get a parcel of the land,” he said.
Mr Muheria said that 456 acres of the farm were currently leased out to flower growing company.
“Our members are ready to move into the land in Naivasha which they bought using coffee funds and start sub-dividing it after the AGM,” he said.
“The land was bought back in the early 80s and some of the elderly members have died waiting for justice and some officers in the registrar of company are the stumbling block,” said Nanga-Kihoto chairman Samuel Monyo. The election of new directors was ordered by High Court judge Rosely Korir