Kogony Clan members demand shs 26 Billion as compensation for Kisumu airport land.
The Chairman of the National Land Commission Committee on historical Injustices on Land Dr. Samwel Tororey{C} chairs the committee's sitting in Kisumu where Kogony Clan members presented their petition wanting the Government to pay them shs 26 billion as compensation towards the land they gave the Kenya Airports Authority for construction of Kisumu Airport-Photo By Dickson Odhiambo.
By Dickson Odhiambo.
August 17, 2018.
Kogony Clan members
demand shs 26 Billion as compensation for Kisumu airport land.
MEMBERS of Kogony Clan in Kisumu County want the National
Government to pay them shs 26 billion as compensation to their land which they
gave to Kenya Airports Authority to build Kisumu Airport.
The clan members through Kogony Clan Elders who hails from
Kisumu West Sub County claim that they gave about 880 acres of land for the
construction of the Kisumu Airport which has since changed into Kisumu
International Airport after its expansion in 2009.
Presenting their petition before the National Land
Commission Committee on Historical injustices on Land which is sitting in
Kisumu, the Clan members being represented by Lawyer Hillary Awino said they
have presented a case in court so as to seek for compensation for 373.2 acres
of their land which they gave to the Kenya Airport Authority in 1942.
A lawyer representing the Attorney General’s chambers told
the committee that the clan members took the matter to court while presenting
373.2 acres for compensation and not 880 acres as they presented before the
committee today.
Lawyer David Otieno representing Kenya Airports Authority in
the matter said 373.2 acres is indeed the land that was acquired by his client
for the construction of the Kisumu Airport.
The clans’ lawyer told the committee led by Dr. Samwel
Tororey that the Government needs to compensate them for the land which the
current Kisumu International Airport stands while claiming shs 26 billion for
compensation.
However, the National Land Commission Committee on
Historical Injustices on Land chairman Dr. Samwel Tororey after listening to
both the petitioner and the respondents in the Kogony Clan Elders verses the
Kenya Airports Authority petition before it directed the clan elders to launch
a fresh claim to the committee on their land acquisition between 1906 and 1914
for hearing and determination.
Dr. Tororey said the Commission will do valuation on the
land in question and will advise accordingly on matters of compensation.
The National
Land Commission Committee on Historical land injustices has commenced investigations
in Kisumu County to hear complaints from the public on historical injustices on
Land.
The
committee is in Kisumu County for two days so as to listen to various claims on
historical land injustices lodged by a section of residents of Kisumu County.
The sittings
are conducted at Kisumu’s Social Hall for those two days.
Dr. Tororey
says the commission through the committee seeks to offer redress to citizens
who suffered historical land injustice between 15th June 1895 and 30
August 2010 as enshrined in the constitution of Kenya 2010.
“Section 15
of the National Land Commission Act as amended on August 30 2016 defines
historical land injustices as a grievance which was occasioned by violation of
a right in land on the basis of any law, policy, declaration, administration,
practice, treaty of agreement,” Dr. Tororey says.
He says upon
investigations of any claim of
historical land injustice, the Commission may recommend the following remedies
like restitution, compensation, resettlement, affirmative action, creation of
way leaves and easement among other remedies as stipulated in section 15{9} of
the National Land Commission Act.
Dr. Tororey
says during the National Land Commission hearings, both the claimants and
respondents together with their representatives make submissions to the
commission.
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