{"id":126646,"date":"2025-12-13T11:07:41","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T11:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/eacc-recovers-road-reserve-in-mombasa-ending-17-year-court-battle\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T11:07:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T11:07:41","slug":"eacc-recovers-road-reserve-in-mombasa-ending-17-year-court-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/eacc-recovers-road-reserve-in-mombasa-ending-17-year-court-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"EACC Recovers Road Reserve in Mombasa Ending 17-Year Court Battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya, Dec 13 \u2013 The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) has recovered a grabbed road reserve on Mombasa Island valued at Sh21 million, ending a 17-year legal battle over land earmarked for the expansion of Tom Mboya Avenue.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a judgment delivered on December 10, 2025, Environment and Land Court Judge Stephen Kibunja ordered the cancellation of the title to land parcel Mombasa Island\/Block XI\/983, ruling that it had been fraudulently acquired.<\/p>\n<p>The court also issued a permanent injunction barring the current holder from dealing with the property, except for surrendering it to the government.<\/p>\n<p>The 0.13-acre parcel had been irregularly allocated through a chain of transactions dating back to the mid-1990s.<\/p>\n<p>Investigations established that the land, a designated road reserve, was first allotted in January 1996 without any application, before changing hands and eventually being sold in 2003 for Sh500,000.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe land, reserved for the expansion of Tom Mboya Avenue, had been irregularly and fraudulently allocated,\u201d the EACC said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>According to EACC, the original case was filed in January 2008 by the former Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission (KACC).<\/p>\n<p>Justice Kibunja ruled that the title had been unlawfully obtained and must be cancelled, effectively returning the land to public ownership.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith this judgment, land parcel Mombasa Island\/Block XI\/983 reverts to the government for the expansion of Tom Mboya Avenue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The recovery, EACC contends, restores a critical public utility corridor within Mombasa Island and clears the way for future infrastructure works along the busy avenue.<\/p>\n<p>EACC said the ruling underscores its mandate to pursue the recovery of public assets lost through corruption and fraud, adding that similar cases remain active across the country.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya, Dec 13 \u2013 The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) has recovered a grabbed road reserve on Mombasa Island valued at Sh21 million, ending a 17-year legal battle over land earmarked for the expansion of Tom Mboya Avenue. In a judgment delivered on December 10, 2025, Environment and Land Court Judge Stephen Kibunja ordered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}