Mowlem ward residents have petitioned the county assembly and National Security Council to resolve the disputed ownership of 275 acres in Embakasi West.
Last month, they protested against demolition of their houses by a developer.
The land is between the railway line to the north, Kangundo Road to the south, the New Kenya Co-operative Creameries factory to the west and Coca-Cola Company to the east.
In the petition presented to the assembly by Mowlem MCA Benson Mwangi, the residents want the county assembly to investigate the issue with a view to protecting their land.
The residents are drawn from the Mowlem Residents Association and the Sossian Five Quarters Association
The two associations, occupiers of Sossian estate and Mowlem plot owners include hundreds of plots with certificates and titles issued by the government, all being subdivisions of LR No. 15400.
The row over the land started on May 10, 2018, when the National Land Commission via a letter purported to direct the Chief Land Registrar to revoke all the titles in LR No. 15400.
“[We are] aware the Chief Lands Registrar has not acted on that letter by the National Land Commission and further aware the Environment an Land Court at Nairobi (case number 35 of 2018) delivered a judgment on 10th June 2021,” the petition reads.
The petition says the judgment quashed the decision and the 2018 letter of the NLC.
It also says the judgment issued an order prohibiting the NLC and the Chief Land Registrar from implementing the decision of the NLC dated May 10, 2018.
The petitioners claim Kiambu Dandora Farmers Limited purported to use the May 10, 2018, letter to allege that they own the land (LR. No. 15400) .
The allegation was made despite the land being granted to several private companies and developers directly by the government, the petitioners said.
However, last month on July 21, the companies’ structures were demolished without prior notice, they said.
“A safe structure, which is also partly demolished and in Umoja 3 G7 and Super Loaf primary, the only primary school in that area whose wall was also demolished,” MCA Mwangi said.
He also said the companies and Mowlem residents have faced harsh treatment from the Nairobi Metropolitan Services and Administration Police from Kayole and the Buruburu police stations since then.
The Mowlem residents' petition is before the assembly's planning and housing committee.
(Edited by V. Graham)
