Govt Loses Land Meant for Thika Road Bus Terminus
A section of the Thika Superhighway at Allsops
Simon Kiragu
The government has lost a prime piece of land which was meant for the construction of a bus terminus along Thika Road.
A court in Nairobi ruled that the government had attempted to short change a private firm in a botched purchase deal.
Documents presented before the court detailed that the firm, Springdew Properties, sold the land to the government in 2009 at Ksh29 million.
The land was to be reserved for the expansion of Thika Road and for the construction of a terminus and a road interchange.
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The government has lost a court battle over six acres of prime land on Thika Road.
The Lands ministry bought the property from Springdew Properties in 2009 for Sh29 million for the expansion of Thika Road. The parcel was, however, not utilised.
Six years later, the company reached out to the ministry and refunded the money so it could build a mall on the property.
But in 2017, Springdew learnt that the land had appeared in the Kenya Gazette as a road reserve.
In court papers, the firm said it had already spent Sh25 million on mall construction by then.