DP on EACC commissioner Paul Mwaniki’s neck over sh8B land scam

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EACC commissioner Paul Mwaniki on the spot after DPP Noordin Haji ordered investigations to his la firm for involvement in Ksh 8 billion land sam.

DPP Haji wrote to Director of Criminal Investigations (DCI) George Kinoti to launch a probe after it emerged that matter had been filed with both EACC and DCI but not much progress had been made. 

It dates back to June 2018,  the case was reported to the anti-graft agency but no action was taken. Another complaint was filed at DCI in August the same year but nothing materialized. 

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EACC commissioner Paul Mwaniki

DPP’s latest letter to DCI, the office protested the laxity with which the matter had been handled, adding that Haji had received a third complaint. 

“In the said letter we enclosed a very serious, albeit detailed complaint addressed to the Director of Public Prosecutions. To date, the Director of Public Prosecutions has not received any response or the police investigations file. The Director of Public Prosecutions has now received a further complaint (enclosed) touching on the same subject matter. Could we have the police investigations
file without further delay” wrote the chief prosecutor.
 
According to Nation, the scandal involves 302 acres of prime land valued at Ksh 8 billion located both sides of Northern bypass near Kamiti in Nairobi. 

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The law firm’s first implication is the fraudulent acquisition of the land while the second implication involved payments of compensation money by the Roads Ministry to a company registered unprocedurally. 

The land in question belonged to former Provincial Commissioner John Godhand Mburu, who died in 1981. The deceased had acquired the land in 1974.

In 2010 the property was hived off for the construction of the Western Bypass and compensation paid to a strange company. The remainder of the land later changed hands before being subdivided into small plots and sold to unsuspecting buyers.


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