Kenya Railways starts reclaiming grabbed land for mass transit rollout
Posted: 02 Feb 2020, 16:32
Pastor Ng’ang’a could lose city church in land row with Kenya Railways
And about time too. This shanty-church made of corrugated iron occupies railway land at a busy road intersection. It is right next to the national railway museum, and blocks any possibility of accessing the museum from the main road, meaning that tourists and other museum visitors have to take a circuitous route through heavy traffic and along a pot-holed back road, leading to many of them giving up, or simply getting lost. The church is also very noisy at times, and from the look of it also poses a serious health and safety risk to its occupants and passers-by.On Friday, January 31, the flamboyant city preacher received a notification from KRC informing him the land occupied by Neno church encroaches on land initially reserved for railway use, as reported by the Daily Nation. “You are hereby requested to surrender all documents relating to the irregular allocation of the above referenced property to the corporation,†said KRC. The corporation told the pastor-who is well known for his prowess in exorcism- that repossession of the parcel was part of its intensified crackdown to reclaim all its land that had been allocated to private entities throughout the country...