Mudavadi dismisses land grabbing claims
Nasa co-principal Musalia Mudavadi has dismissed claims that he is among a group of top politicians and influential individuals in the previous regimes, who are counting loses after the National Land Commission cancelled their land title deeds.
Mr Mudavadi, who has threatened to seek legal redress, has blamed the allegations on some “Jubilee agents eager to salvage their dwindling electability” of being behind his latest woes
Mr Mudavadi, in a statement through his press secretary Kibisu Kabatesi, termed the story carried by the Daily Nation titled, “Shame: Grabbers tittle deeds axed” that quoted the National Lands Commission through a gazette notice, as “utter rubbish, sickening and malicious attack on Mudavadi’s integrity.”
“Mr Mudavadi woke up this morning in Kitale to an astonishing and asteroid-like banner headline in the Daily Nation linking him to land grabbing,” Mr Kabatesi said adding that Mudavadi’s opinion was never sought before the story was published.
The Gazette notice published on July 17, 2017 also listed individuals affected in the cancellation of the titles.
GAZETTE NOTICE
They include presidential candidate Joseph Nyagah, Kasarani MP John Njoroge, Kisii Senator candidate Sam Ongeri and George Godia, Kenya’s permanent representative to UNESCO.
The gazette notice, a legal government document, names Mudavadi as the beneficiary of an irregular allocation of a public utility land in Nairobi’s Woodley area reserved for county government housing.
He however, accused Jubilee of using the services of the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission to intimidate NLC, linking the latest allegations as a plot hatched to tarnish reputations of Nasa leaders.
“It will not be surprising that in the fullness of time, this plot will be exposed as another fairy embarrassment to Jubilee in the mould of the EACC report President Kenyatta dramatized in Parliament,” he said.
A piece of land owned Mr Mudavadi’s late father, Moses Mudavadi has also been reverted to the Kakamega Golf Club, where it is alleged to have been incised from according to the NLC. Mr Mudavadi is the administrator of his late father’s estate.
REVOKED
However, Mr Mudavadi noted he has never owned and does not hold any title to any property in Woodley estate “for it to be alleged as repossessed and title revoked.”
“Hon Mudavadi is tenant in a house in Woodley belonging to Nairobi City County government for which he has religiously paid rent for years,” he said terming the allegations as “a phantom creation intended to malign the character of Hon Mudavadi.”
“It is inconceivable that Hon Mudavadi would knowingly allow himself to be patron of Kakamega Golf Club when he is an interested party in grabbing the club’s land. It is even ridiculous to imagine that esteemed club members would elect him Patron against such conflict of interest.”
He added that as the administrator of his late father’s estate, he is not aware and does not have any title to land allegedly incised from land belonging to Kakamega Golf Club and allocated to his father.
The statement further notes that “Kakamega Golf Club through its chairman has confirmed that the club knows no such incision or dispute on its land” and that “if such an allocation and title exist, it must be a fraud perpetuated within the Ministry of Lands and the NLC.”
