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Evict illegal occupants, MPs tell Coast water firm

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PIC chairman Adan Keynan. FILE PHOTO | NMG

The Coast Water Services Board (CWSB) has lost land and 42 staff houses in Shanzu, MPs have said.

The National Assembly’s Public Investments Committee (PIC) wants the board’s management to urgently secure court orders for the immediate eviction of illegal occupants.

“The committee recommends that the chief executive officer seeks a court order for immediate eviction of the illegal occupants from its parcels of land and Shanzu Staff Housing and puts a caveat on its properties,” says Public Investment Committee (PIC) chairman Adan Keynan in a report to Parliament.

The MPs said CWSB had lost a number of its pieces of land, including the plot on which 42 staff houses sit.

The units are now occupied by private individuals.

“The land where CWSB offices are located in Mombasa belongs to the Ministry of Water and Irrigation although the ministry does not have ownership records making it difficult to pursue the title deed,” PIC said.

The MPs have directed the Ministry of Water and Irrigation to engage the Ministry of Lands and the National Land Commission in order to v acquire ownership documents for the board’s parcels of land.

They also want the board to maintain an asset register of all its properties.