the entirety of a4's arguments are out of context, while it is prudent and necessary to enact clear laws that instruct on how idle govt. land should transition from the govt. to private developers or persons, the current situation with the kevevapi land presents because the mode in which the land transitioned from the govt. to individuals was irregular and illegal, the law in effect when the land was transferred was not followed as evidenced by the ndungu report and the apparent claims by kevevapi, what a4 is putting forth here is the 'ought' of the law while disregarding the actual law in place which should apply, you cannot use yet to be enacted legislation to ground your arguments.
procedure was not followed in this case and the whole thing remains an illegality, any other arguments are details and affected individuals should sue for compensation

@vky, assuming its factual as you say that the allocation was illegal, is it then ok/fair for ministry of agric to demolish as opposed to other options such as compensation with other lands, occupation of the built up structures etc? Since we are both arguing from the info we see from the media and are not privy to detailed commissioner of lands transaction, my view is that other avenues of remedy whereby loss of capital and expenses is mitigated should have been put through.

From my point of view, other compensatory measures could have been carried out since ministry of agric has thousands of other lands around nairobi.

For a 3rd world country like ours to use bulldozers to crush much needed capital/resources looks unreasonable for me.

Maybe you can give us your 2 cents of solution we compare.

@vky,assuming you are a decision maker for kevevapi, what would you advocate for in this case as the solution?
I personally would advocate for land compensation mechanism for kevevapi as compared to demolition.

@vky, good judgement. Same here.
On whether kevevapi really have much use of the land, judging from the info in the media, how high do you think is the urgency for the land acquisition?
Fact is that ministry of agric has thousands of other idle land in same proximity to cbd as kevevapi.
Another fact is that ministry of agric is only licenced to carry out agric activities as opposed to real estate biz.

How would you judge the necessity to bring down the buildings by ministry of agric so as to get undeveloped land? Urgent, not necessary or moderate?

Unless maybe agric ministry had the intention of scaring the residents and putting them in position ready for serious compensation discussions, the demolitions were totally unnecessary.

That's a win?

From what I gathered in the linked article, the only winners are the three companies who were involved in the initial scam namely Sharjah Trading Co. Ltd, Rielco Co. Ltd and Samu Ltd.

The current bonafide buyers have to buy the land again at current market prices!