The County government of Kericho has notified owners of parcels of land listed in a public notice as allocated illegally to either vacate or seek regularization where applicable.
A public notice published in local dailies on 5th September 2022 listed a total of 119 parcels of land irregularly allocated to developers within the Kericho Municipality.
According to the notice, the criteria and format of regularization is prescribed in the Kericho County Regularization of Unauthorized Developments Act 2021 and the same can be downloaded from the County website, which is, www.kericho.go.ke/downloads
Kericho Governor Dr. Eric Mutai has relentlessly insisted that individuals who were irregularly allocated the said pieces of land should surrender them back to the County government for public use.
“Further to my directions on irregular or illegal possession of land, we have today published the parcels in question in the dailies and owners are notified of County government’s intention to take back the parcels for public use,” reiterated Mutai
Last week, Governor Mutai led an operation to flush out a private developer who had encroached on a two-acre County public land and fenced it off at the dump-site area on the outskirts of Kericho town.
Speaking after leading and supervising the stripping down of a fence enclosing the dump-site, the Governor instructed the County Department of Lands, Housing and Physical Planning to make public the full list of all grabbed government and public lands including riparian lands in the county.
He assured residents that as a custodian of public property, he will remain steadfast in protecting whatever belongs to the people adding that the operation was the first of many to come as the County government seeks to recover all public property from the hands of unscrupulous individuals.
