“Officers’ playground”

Abstract

The Commission on Administrative Justice (CAJ) received a complaint on 15th December, 2015 from representatives of a group of traders who had operated stalls at Eastleigh Market (L.R No. 36/VII/1037). The complainants alleged that they were allocated space at the market by the defunct Nairobi City Council in 1981 and they constructed stalls using their own money. The traders operated various businesses until the market was demolished in the early morning of 10th January 2009. According to the complaint, the market was allocated to private developers under the guise of Public-Private Partnership initiative in 2008 by the then Nairobi City Council. The complaint prompted the Commission to conduct investigations into possible dereliction of duty, abuse of power, unfair treatment and injustice by the defunct Nairobi City Council officials in the allocation of land registered as L.R No. 36/VII/1037 to private developers.