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AfricaPress-Kenya:<\/strong> A 60-year-old man woke up on Tuesday morning to find his land had been converted into a matatu terminus.<\/p>\n

Lawrence Maina claims he has suffered loss worth thousands of shillings after a fence to his\u00a0one-and-a-half-acre property was demolished by touts operating in the new terminus near Nakuru County Cemetery.Mr Maina said Nakuru County askaris arrived early in the morning and directed the touts and residents to demolish the fence.<\/p>\n

He claims the askaris instructed the locals to load the fencing materials into county vehicles and transported them away.\u201cWhen I asked why they were destroying my property, the person who was giving instructions said the county had the right to take over any land within the county,\u201d said Maina.<\/p>\n

He said nobody consulted him or asked for permission before invading the land and destroying the fence. The land was turned into a matatu terminus and vehicles started being parked on it.Maina said the askaris told him they were following \u201corders from above\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was allocated this land by the district registrar of lands in 1996. There has never been any wrangles involving it. It is a private property and shouldn\u2019t be used for public purposes,\u201d he said.Yesterday, the matatu operators refused to occupy the space after a gang burnt a car tyre and prevented operators from accessing the land.<\/p>\n

Maina said apart from losing the fencing materials, which he estimated to be worth \u201chundreds of thousands\u201d, his geese and turkeys were also stolen when the fence was destroyed.<\/p>\n

Maina said he would institute a suit against the county and seek orders to restrain its officials from invading his land.\u201cThe governor of Nakuru must have a serious explanation to what is happening. If not, he should be ready to compensate me for the damage – both materially and mentally,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cThe county has a huge space that can be used as matatu terminus; it is unlawful for them to take over my land.\u201dNakuru Governor Lee Kinyanjui denied that the county had grabbed Maina\u2019s land, saying it was a temporary measure to help fight the coronavirus.He said the land and the fencing materials would be surrendered back to Maina once the pandemic was contained.<\/p>\n

Mr Kinyanjui said the move was a temporary measure aimed at addressing congestion in matatu parking spots for the \u201cgreater good\u201d, hence the need to encroach Maina\u2019s land.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are trying to prevent the spread of coronavirus and we temporarily converted the unused land into a terminus because we needed a temporary space as we look for long-term measures,\u201d the governor said in a statement through the director of communications, Beatrice Obwocha.He said Maina\u2019s land, which is near where the county wanted to set up a new terminus, was the only option.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AfricaPress-Kenya: A 60-year-old man woke up on Tuesday morning to find his land had been converted into a matatu terminus. Lawrence Maina claims he has suffered loss worth thousands of shillings after a fence to his\u00a0one-and-a-half-acre property was demolished by touts operating in the new terminus near Nakuru County Cemetery.Mr Maina said Nakuru County askaris […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":5340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,8],"tags":[776,2758,2757,2756],"class_list":["post-5387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-homepage-english","tag-land","tag-lawrence-maina","tag-nakuru-county-cemetery","tag-terminus"],"yoast_head":"\nMan cries foul as county turns his land into terminus - kenya<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A 60-year-old man woke up on Tuesday morning to find his land had been converted into a matatu terminus.Lawrence Maina claims he has suffered\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/man-cries-foul-as-county-turns-his-land-into-terminus\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Man cries foul as county turns his land into terminus\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A 60-year-old man woke up on Tuesday morning to find his land had been converted into a matatu terminus.Lawrence Maina claims he has suffered\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/man-cries-foul-as-county-turns-his-land-into-terminus\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"kenya\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-04-02T16:35:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/sites\/28\/2020\/04\/gzoxi61reraro2gxsb5e843951648a7.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"533\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/man-cries-foul-as-county-turns-his-land-into-terminus#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/man-cries-foul-as-county-turns-his-land-into-terminus\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Man cries foul as county turns his land into terminus\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-04-02T16:35:56+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/man-cries-foul-as-county-turns-his-land-into-terminus\"},\"wordCount\":479,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/man-cries-foul-as-county-turns-his-land-into-terminus#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/sites\/28\/2020\/04\/gzoxi61reraro2gxsb5e843951648a7.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Land\",\"Lawrence Maina\",\"Nakuru County Cemetery\",\"Terminus\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\",\"homepage-english\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/man-cries-foul-as-county-turns-his-land-into-terminus#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/man-cries-foul-as-county-turns-his-land-into-terminus\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/man-cries-foul-as-county-turns-his-land-into-terminus\",\"name\":\"Man cries foul as county turns his land into terminus - 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