Saitoti plaza targeted for demolition

Nairobi: A property owned by the late Internal security minister George Saitoti is among those targeted for demolition as Kajiado County enforces spatial planning in Kitengela town.

Kitengela Plaza, which hosts a number of businesses, is said to be erected on the Nairobi-Namanga road reserve.

Kajiado governor David Nkedianye said the owners of properties built on road reserves would be served with notices to vacate the areas, giving way to social amenities like sewer lines, road reserves, feeder roads and parking areas.

“Our engineers, surveyors and physical planners are already carrying out the feasibility studies to mark the affected areas before we give the land owners and developers a notice to move,” he said. 

The crackdown also affects Ngong, Kiserian, Ongata Rongai, Isinya, Kajiado, Namanga and Loitokitok and will see hawkers moved to market areas.

The governor blamed poor planning for traffic snarl ups along Namanga Road.

“All the feeder roads to Kitengela town have to be opened up,’’ he said.