{"id":15750,"date":"2023-08-05T02:14:08","date_gmt":"2023-08-05T02:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/?p=15750"},"modified":"2023-08-05T07:51:08","modified_gmt":"2023-08-05T07:51:08","slug":"eastleigh-residents-praise-demolition-as-governor-sakaja-moves-to-repossess-health-center-land-grabbed-by-airbase-mca-fuad-hussein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/?p=15750","title":{"rendered":"Eastleigh residents praise demolition as Governor Sakaja moves to repossess health center land  grabbed by Airbase MCA Fuad Hussein"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Eastleigh residents were praising Gov Sakaja for the move to reposess their grabbed land from area mCA as the irate MCA Fuad Hussein hurled insults on the governor. The plot thickens<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Residents of Eastleigh in Nairobi have praised the demolition of a building that had been illegally erected at a grabbed hospital parcel of land as Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja\u2019s government moved to repossess the health center land from land grabbers.<br>The residents said that the demolition was in the interests of the public who stood to lose the chance to access medical care following the demolition of a hospital block at the Eastleigh Health Center on the estate\u2019s fourth street along Eastleigh second avenue.<br>County bulldozers descended on a building that had been put up under the watch of Eastleigh Airbase ward as the Member of the County Assembly (MCA) Fuad Hussein following public outcry and an official complaint letter that was sent to the Nairobi County Chief Officer of Health facilities Geoffrey Mosiria by the Kamukunji Sub County health officer Dr. Mirriam Etole last December.<br>The building, believed to be co-owned by Fuad and the South C MCA Abass Khalif, was demolished amidst sharp criticism from Faud who accused Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja of intimidation. Abbas is believed to have funded the demolition of the hospital with the supervision of Faud even as he continues to instigate accusations of fraud against the county government led by Governor Sakaja.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG-20230805-WA0040-720x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15780\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG-20230805-WA0040-720x1024.jpg 720w, https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG-20230805-WA0040-211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG-20230805-WA0040-768x1092.jpg 768w, https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG-20230805-WA0040.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"671\" height=\"915\" src=\"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG-20230805-WA0041.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15781\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG-20230805-WA0041.jpg 671w, https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG-20230805-WA0041-220x300.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 671px) 100vw, 671px\" \/><figcaption><strong><em>Documents in support of the demolitions from the county government.<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"499\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screenshot_20230805-051942-499x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15757\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screenshot_20230805-051942-499x1024.jpg 499w, https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screenshot_20230805-051942-146x300.jpg 146w, https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screenshot_20230805-051942.jpg 708w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>https:\/\/m.facebook.com\/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02Spo1CRG1sYqAj5ec3HEJB8FinnKsr3HytVau4aCHm6h7qpQSrwFKd4akJZ1oBoc8l&amp;id=100000718582487&amp;mibextid=Nif5oz<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG-20230805-WA0007-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15753\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG-20230805-WA0007-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG-20230805-WA0007-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG-20230805-WA0007-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG-20230805-WA0007.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption><strong><em>A copy of the orders authorizing demolition.<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><strong><em>\u201cSakaja Johnson, There is no way you are taking the beef to the ground. My main aim is to do the oversight and we have to keep intact in the county expenditure. If u think that u can silence me, you are very wrong! I won\u2019t be ridiculed me. I will expose your impunity until the last minute,\u201d Fuad wrote on his social media pages<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"5 August 2023\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zXnMrTPTg7U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption><strong><em>Video of the demolition.<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>According to investigations, Fuad grabbed the hospital premises after duping the management that he was putting up a ward MCA\u2019s office only to start erecting a multi-story commercial building.<br>On 22nd December 2022, Dr. Etole wrote to Mosiria the Health Facilities Chief Officer in the Nairobi County Government reporting that there had been an unauthorized demolition and construction of a building at the health facility in Eastleigh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The sub-county medical officer reported that the facility housed the offices of the ward administrator and the Eastleigh Airbase MCA had requested to set up his office at the facility. However, during the Christmas holidays, the MCA accessed the building and demolished it leaving residents with no health center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG-20230805-WA0010-576x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15760\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG-20230805-WA0010-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG-20230805-WA0010-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG-20230805-WA0010-768x1365.jpg 768w, https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG-20230805-WA0010-864x1536.jpg 864w, https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG-20230805-WA0010.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><figcaption>Fuad&#8217;s illegal structure on the grabbed land<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Residents say the the demolition was a step in the right direction calling on the county government to ensure that land grabbers have no space to take over public property.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Hassan Muhammad, the Secretary General of the Eastleigh Airbase Residence Lobby group in a letter dated 20th December 2022 to the then Nairobi County Secretary Jairus Musumba raised the red flag after information that the area MCA Fuad Hassan\u2019s intentions to grab the health center land and build a commercial property in the guise of constructing an office for his roles as area MCA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/FB_IMG_1691202876733.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15763\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/FB_IMG_1691202876733.jpg 720w, https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/FB_IMG_1691202876733-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"960\" src=\"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/FB_IMG_1691202886700.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15765\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/FB_IMG_1691202886700.jpg 720w, https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/FB_IMG_1691202886700-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"960\" src=\"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/FB_IMG_1691202879986.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15766\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/FB_IMG_1691202879986.jpg 720w, https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/FB_IMG_1691202879986-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The county government\u2019s director in charge of planning compliance and enforcement on 21st July 2023 under the Physical Planning and land use act directed the developers of the construction to demolish the building, after which the county government moved to bring down the building for the offense of construction without county approval.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fuad in a separate incident was recorded calling a Nairobi county planning officer to issue threats following a letter that had been written to sanction the MCA overland grabbing. The MCA was heard uttering unprintable insults to the officer and issuing threats to cause bodily harm to the officer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Governor Sakaja has employed a zero tolerance policy on all city land grabbers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eastleigh residents were praising Gov Sakaja for the move to reposess their grabbed land from area mCA as the irate MCA Fuad Hussein hurled insults on the governor. The plot thickens. Residents of Eastleigh in Nairobi have praised the demolition of a building that had been illegally erected at a grabbed hospital parcel of land &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":15752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15750"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15782,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15750\/revisions\/15782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}