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Former Education Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang'i and PS Belio Kipsang disregarded the ministry's internal report to authorise Sh1.5 billion payments for the controversial Ruaraka land, it has been revealed.

Fresh documents tabled in Parliament yesterday show that a team appointed by the Ministry of Education to investigate the land’s ownership had concluded that the parcel occupied by Ruaraka High School and Drive-In Primary was public.

The report by the Quality Assurance and Standards task force was submitted to Matiang'i and Kipsang on February 3, 2017 — 11 months before the duo approved payment of Sh1.5 billion to city businessman Francis Mburu.

This was part of Sh3.2 billion that the government had agreed to pay before the scandal burst into the public spotlight.

According to the report, the land was surrendered for public use by Drive-In Estate, a sister company to Afrison Import Export Limited, as a mandatory condition for subdivision of the 96-acre piece of land.


Matiang'iiiiiiii........what is left of Uhuru's government if his CS in charge of IS is in it?. I think Uhuru will go down as the most useless President this country has ever had. Waturudishie Moi ama Obako jameni

Hakuna mambo ya conscience. They have been eating together all along it's only that they disagreed juzi on the "cut" leading to him spilling the beans.

There is no honor among thieves. If he had conscience, he would not be part of the plot in the first place.

Mburu has now sued the Nairobi County Govt for 30B for grabbing his land.

I have analysed this whole issue at depth and also looked at Mburu's side of the story and i agree that he is RIGHT that he must be compensated for his land. His land was 96 acres of FREEHOLD land and is currently occupied by govt agencies - gsu, schools, chiefs camp, administration police camp, outering road, and county officials grabbed part of the land and sold 800 plots. Seriously the govt (and people of kenya) has done alot of injustice to this man and he needs to be compensated at market rates.

Also if he was paid 1.5B as part payment of the land occupied by the schools, it's no ones business what he does with his money, whether he moves it to company a,b,c or even a Swiss account.

If they refuse to pay, Mburu should bring in bulldozers and remove the encroachers from his 96 acres of land, with removal costs being paid by the illegal occupants. There is no scam here. His 96 acres of the freehold land is worth about 40B at current markets rates of 400m per acre.

No one (including govt and sonko) should come to your 96 acres of freehold land and claim that you surrendered 13.5 acres for 2 schools, land that you have never subdivided. That is total madness.

We should disregard the so called whistle blowers hallucinations. There is no scam. If they dont want to pay for the land wahame mara moja.