Heartbreaking: Find Out Why Disputed Lang’ata Primary School Playground No Longer Belongs To The Kids!

Early this year, Lang’ata Primary School made headlines the world over when its kids together with activists demonstrated to protest the grabbing of what they said was their land.

Their demos were, however, met with tear-gassing by police officers deployed to cool down the situation, leaving a number of kids hospitalized after inhaling the dangerous gas.

Condemnation emerged from all corners of the republic after the scenes of the tear-gassing emerged on the social media, with the Kenyan police and government coming under heavy criticism following the manner the whole situation was handled.

What followed next was prominent government persons like lands Cabinet Secretary Charity Ngilu and her interior counterpart Joseph Nkaissery visiting the school to promise that the land belonged to the kids.

The government quickly moved in NYS which cleared the compound and put a sign post warning potential grabbers that the land belonged to the kids.

Months after the demonstrations, it is now emerging that the land does not belong to the kids. According to the National Lands Commission under the leadership of Muhammed Swazuri, the land belongs to the private developer who had erected a perimeter wall that the kids brought down.

NLC says that the Airport View Housing Company is the owner of the disputed piece of land and that it has a valid title deed of the land.

This means that the land does not belong to Lang’ata Primary School.

Airport View claims it paid Sh2.7 million to the government between 1989 and 1994 for the 10.9 acres, which the disputed 1.4 acres is part of.

Charity Ngilu, the suspended Lands minister, in February named four businessmen — Harbans Singh Amrit, Mandip Singh Amrit, Kamal Prakash Amrit and Manjit Singh Amrit — as the firm’s owners, and said they had grabbed the 1.4-acre piece of land. Was this a lie to cover up the whole thing?