Kajiado residents have given the government two weeks to address concerns over the use of their land for construction of SGR beacons without consent.
The community, mostly living next to the Nairobi national park, came out to protest the action of contractors who erected beacons on the said farms at the weekend without notice.
A section of the community living at Olosirkon said that they will not sit back and watch as their land is being "intruded by strangers accompanied by armed police officers".
This is the height of the simmering row that has been boiling over the use of land for construction of the SGR railway, a situation that risks frustrating the project.
Daniel Pasha, the community's chairman, wants the government to explain what the beacons are for - in case their suspicion that the SGR is passing through the area is wrong.
"A helicopter has been hovering around the area and when we inquired, we were told that they were looking for a rhino. We were later shocked to learn that they must have been doing aerial survey because beacons were placed on some of the farms without our knowledge or involvement," he said, showing members of the press a GPS beacon already erected near his farm.
Pasha owns a 50-acre piece of land in the area on which he has erected a house worth over Sh 30 million.
This is not the first time discontent is brewing over the construction of the standard gauge railway.
On August 2, angry youth demanding a share of SGR jobs at the Duka Moja construction site on the Narok-Maai Mahiu road.
Communities set to be affected are drawn from Kitengela, Olosirkon, Sholinke and Oletepes.
"If this ongoing SGR development is allowed through the park, we will have done great disservice to our national heritage," Nkamuno Patita, a resident, said.
And they reiterated that they are not opposed to the project but are only concerned about how it is being implemented.
"KWS has been silent in this injustice being meted on the park and we are baffled by its failure to advise the government accordingly," Patita said.
The group is warning that wildlife corridors and dispersal areas are set to be affected.
David Harris, a former pilot whose land overlooks the park, said a convoy of Chinese accompanied by armed police men visited his farm early on a Sunday morning without his knowledge.
"I came to this area because I wanted a silent place. This will no longer be assured when the railway line passes through this area," he said.
Harris said the community has never been consulted, further proposing that the SGR project be re-routed from populated areas of Kajiado east to less developed areas.
They said Konza, Kisaju, Kona Baridi behind Ngong Hills to Suswa is the best alternative.
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