Kenya’s top university is under siege — not by students, but by powerful insiders and greedy business cronies. The University of Nairobi, with assets worth a staggering Sh211.3 billion, has become a playground for land barons and corrupt officials. They have carved out their wealth, leased land illegally, and diverted funds while hiding behind academic […]
Kileleshwa MCA Robert Alai, once celebrated for exposing land scams in Nairobi, is now at the center of a disturbing land-grab scandal. In a shocking twist, Alai stands accused of illegally seizing a multi-million shilling property in Nairobi’s upscale Runda estate. A lawsuit filed by Cancer Investments Ltd claims that Alai and a group of […]
Puzzles behind grabbed KMD land The 21.04 hectares located in Nairobi’s Industrial Area on Road B, off Enterprise Road, belong to the Kenya Meteorological Department (KMD). The land houses a meteorological station with a transmitter, generator rooms and staff quarters. The irregular allocation is the subject of an audit query by Auditor-General Nancy Gathungu on […]
Grabbers have devised new tricks to fleece land owners as disputes continue to pile up in court. From faking land registration titles, invading public and idle land, faking court orders, selling one piece of land to several buyers and forging death certificates, the list of tricks appears endless. In one of the instances, a businessman […]
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