THE Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission has said the boundary between Kajiado and Makueni counties in Emali town is not the railway line.
“The boundary is a fixed survey cadastral line that marks the perimeter boundary of the township to the southwest which is approximately 800 metres from the railway line to the high voltage power line,” commission chairman Issack Hassan says in a letter.
The letter dated February 20, addressed to Makueni Senator Mutula Kilonzo Jnr, says the boundary is prescribed by the 1992 Districts and Provinces Act.
Hassan’s intervention was sought by the Emali Residents’ Association who wanted to know the boundary.
This because some people were not paid when the landowners of parcels where the Standard Gauge Railway passes through were compensated.
For years, Kajiado leaders had formed an opinion based on the agreement between the colonial government in the 1900s with the Kamba community in Emali.
During Madaraka Day celebrations on Monday, Kajiado Governor David Nkedianye rallied elected county leaders to stand for their rights in “reclaiming” parts of Emali town.
Nkedianye spoke in Kajiado town and declared he will not rest until the boundary line in Emali has been reinstated to the railway line.
He told Mutula to stop “dreaming and imagining he can hold the whole world with his hands by pushing boundaries around him”.
Nkedianye said he will lead a delegation of Kajiado leaders to Emali to meet Makueni leaders to “pump sense into their head” and make them understand the reality on the ground.
“We did not create the railway line to be the boundary but our forefathers mutually agreed with the colonial administration of the 1900s that the railway line should be the official boundary between the Kamba and the Maasai,” he said.
But Mutula has rejected the Maasai leader’s position and stands by the IEBC’s ruling on the declared boundary.
