THE STANDARD
KENYA
City Cabanas hotel located at the junction of Airport North Road and Mombasa Road in Nairobi. [Courtesy]
National Lands Commission (NLC) yesterday held a crisis meeting over the controversial payout of Sh1.5 billion to the owner of a city hotel as compensation for compulsory acquisition of land for construction of the Nairobi Expressway.
The payment was done despite the High Court barring NLC from transacting over the land until a case in court is determined.
On December 11, last year, the High Court in Nairobi gave an injunction for payment of the cash to Rose Njeri Macharia, the proprietor of City Cabanas and Cabanas park until the land dispute with Simandi Investments Limited was determined.