The Ministry of Lands, NLC and Kenya Railways last month deployed surveyors and valuers to various sites along the route to fast track land acquisition and compensation.
The railroad is expected to cut through town centres and agricultural zones such as Maai Mahiu and right inside the Nairobi National Park, according to Dr Swazuri, highlighting the heavy compensation burden awaiting taxpayers.
Slow compensation of land owners is set to delay the completion of the Nairobi-Naivasha standard gauge railway (SGR), nine months after work on the project started.
The National Land Commissions (NLC) was supposed to conduct a valuation audit of individual parcels on the Nairobi-Naivasha line, setting in motion the process of acquiring wayleaves for the railroad earmarked for completion next June
However, NLC deployed land surveyors and valuers to sites along the SGR corridor a few weeks ago to fast track land acquisition and compensation, an exercise expected to gobble billions of taxpayers’ money.
“I can only establish the amount we intend to use on compensating land owners whose plots lie along SGR phase 2A once we are done with the valuation exercise. As for now, that process is still ongoing,” NLC chairman Muhammad Swazuri told Shipping and Logistics in an interview.
The Ministry of Lands, NLC and Kenya Railways last month deployed surveyors and valuers to various sites along the route to fast track land acquisition and compensation.
The railroad is expected to cut through town centres and agricultural zones such as Maai Mahiu and right inside the Nairobi National Park, according to Dr Swazuri, highlighting the heavy compensation burden awaiting taxpayers.
Environmental conservationists have challenged the plan for the project traverse t the wildlife park.
The NLC spent Sh33 billion on land compensation for the first phase of the SGR running from Mombasa to Nairobi.
An internal audit by Kenya Railway Corporation (KRC) shows that about Sh500 million was lost in questionable payments for land.
In the report, names of beneficiaries of Sh11 million in the KRC schedule differ from those on the NLC list. There is also over-payment of Sh9.8 million
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