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The National Assembly has summoned former Baringo senator Gideon Moi over the 5,000 acres of land belonging to Rift Valley Institute of Science and Technology.
The Former Senator is also required to explain the status of the title deeds of the 200 acres of land valued at Sh1.08 billion on which the institute is situated.
National Assembly’s Public Investment Committee on Governance and Education claims that a board of Trustees chaired by Gideon Moi is privately managing the parcels of land in question.
The board was set up to manage the land on behalf of the community and has yet to hand over more than 5,000 acres to the college.
“In 972, the community came together to buy land, 200 acres were set aside to develop Rift Valley Institute of technology.
“For the rest of the land, it is the Board of Governors to answer. I can only talk about 200 acres that is under my jurisdiction,” the institute’s principal Sammy Chemoiwa said.
Committee chairman Wanami Wamboka announced that they would summon Moi and members of the trustee in three weeks to compel them to surrender the land to the institution.
“It is just fair that we summon all the trustees including Moi so that we take this land back to the public. Public land will go back to the public at whatever cost,” Wamboka stated.
The Wamboka-led committee had summoned Chemoiwa after the Auditor General Nancy Gathungu flagged the 200 acres noting that the institute could not provide ownership documents despite massive investment of taxpayers’ money.
The committee plans to visit the institution by next month where the land issue will be discussed.
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