The Ethic and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) has reclaimed 2.5 acres of land recovered in Buxton worth Sh500 million and it is handling about 130 cases in court worth more than Sh10 billion.
The EACC CEO Twalib Mbarak said one of the active case which they are following include 8-acre land which belonged to Coast Water Development Authority.
The Commission has obtained orders from the Environment and Land Court in Mombasa stopping Gulf Energy, one of the sued defendants from developments it was undertaking on the Coast water government staff quarters grabbed from the Ministry of Water and its affiliate agencies in the Shanzu area adjacent to Shanzu Teachers College.
The Shanzu property is valued at Sh365 Million and is part of a larger property in the area valued at Sh1.2 Billion which the Commission is targeting in the Shanzu area.
This was revealed today when Mr Mbarak accompanied by Mombasa Governor Abdullswamad Nassir and other Senior Government Officials undertook site visits to some of the high-value properties that the Commission has recovered from the grabbers, in Mombasa County.
The EACC is also handling a number of cases including a land belonging to Kenya Airports Authority (KAA).
"We wonder how can someone buy a land on a runway," said Mr Mbarak.
Some of the illegally acquired public property including government houses for Civil Servants belonging to KRA with a current market value of Sh358.5 Million.
Others include illegally acquired road reserve, excised from Machakos Road in Mombasa currently used by the University of Nairobi Mombasa Campus as parking area worth Sh 21 Million, five parcels of land stolen from Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC) worth Sh150 Million
Apart from litigation process,EACC is engaging those benefitted from public land on Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) to recover the parcels of land.
Last month, Eacc reclaimed 31 acres of land, valued at Sh 1.2 billion, from private developers on Kwale’s Chale Island
