Skeletons of the Standard Railway Gauge (SGR) land acquisition process have returned to haunt Kenya Railways Company following revelations that it could have irregularly acquired 74 acres of land where the SGR terminus in Nairobi sits.
The company is also at the centre of a probe by Parliament over the now controversial purchase and payout of Sh2.7 billion for another 55-acre piece of land also occupied by the SGR and acquired from the Dupoto/Darfur settlement welfare scheme.
Details before the National Assembly Committee on Lands reveal that Railways bought the land from the Dupoto/Darfur settlement welfare scheme under compulsory acquisition but without following due process and without the relevant land titles.
It also emerged that since the construction of the SGR in 2015, members of the scheme were yet to receive payment for the 74 acres from Kenya Railways.
