60-acre land recovered by EACC now used for housing project - Bishop Oginde
EACC chairperson Bishop David Oginde on Wednesday revealed that the commission recovered a 60-acre parcel of land in South B, Nairobi. The land, Oginde says, is now being used for the construction of the affordable housing project. https://bit.ly/3sSpQNy
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00:00 But yesterday, as commissioners, we went to see an asset that we had recovered out in South B.
00:11 60 acres of land that was grabbed by certain individuals,
00:21 but which the commission was able to retrieve through asset recovery.
00:30 Right now, if you go to that place and you see the kind of work that is being done there,
00:39 you feel proud to have been part of that process.
00:42 Because this plot, this 60 acres of land, is now being used for low-cost housing.
00:51 And the buildings that are already coming up there, some of them nearing completion,
00:57 are wonderful projects, all of them about 14 stories each,
01:03 of one-bedroom units, two-bedroom units, bedsitters.
01:10 And this was going to go to a few individuals who would have pocketed that, maybe sold the very prime land.
01:22 So when we look at those kinds of things, and in fact I wish we had the media there,
01:29 just for them to show Kenyans what is going on there now,
01:36 and what could have been, they could have been robbed of if the SEC had not gone in
01:44 and scattered these things from where they are.
01:47 And so what I'm trying to invite us to do as the media fraternity,
01:52 you are perhaps our best partners in this fight.
01:59 Let's find ways and means through which we can work together
02:04 so that we can first of all educate Kenyans on the seriousness of this vice in our country.
02:15 What measures can be put in place so that we can stop this corruption business.
02:23 You remember in 2003,
02:25 when the president of the United States, John F. Kennedy,