{"id":4708,"date":"2014-08-06T20:58:20","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T13:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=4708"},"modified":"2014-08-06T20:58:33","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T13:58:33","slug":"kenyan-public-prosecutor-orders-land-grabbing-probes-combined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenyan-public-prosecutor-orders-land-grabbing-probes-combined\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenyan public prosecutor orders land grabbing probes combined"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kenya&#8217;s Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Keriako Tobiko on Monday (August 4th) called on the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) and Inspector General of Police David Kimaiyo to combine efforts to investigate land acquisition in Lamu County.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It appears that investigations into the above-mentioned matter are being carried out by your respective institutions separately,&#8221; Tobiko said according to Kenya&#8217;s Capital FM.<\/p>\n<p>Tobiko said he already appointed a team of prosecutors to assist with the probe and ordered them to compile and submit a report to his office for review.<\/p>\n<p>President Uhuru Kenyatta said last week that the government would revoke ownership of nearly 500,000 acres of land acquired in Lamu between 2011 and 2012 through &#8220;dubious and corrupt means&#8221;, and charged Cabinet Secretary for Lands, Housing and Urban Development Charity Ngilu with implementing the directive.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, political leaders and residents have raised concerns that the proposed approach may not address ongstanding disputes over land ownership in the Coast region.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Kenya News\" href=\"http:\/\/sabahionline.com\/en_GB\/articles\/hoa\/articles\/newsbriefs\/2014\/08\/05\/newsbrief-03\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenya&#8217;s Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Keriako Tobiko on Monday (August 4th) called on the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) and Inspector General of Police David Kimaiyo to combine efforts to investigate land acquisition in Lamu County. &#8220;It appears that investigations into the above-mentioned matter are being carried out by your respective institutions separately,&#8221; Tobiko [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,3458,3457,4695,3456,4688,430,1006,3455,257,1264,254],"class_list":["post-4708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-coast-region","tag-disputes-over-land-ownership-in-the-coast-region","tag-east-africa","tag-investigate-land-acquisition-in-lamu-county","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-lamu-county","tag-land-grabbing","tag-news","tag-president-uhuru-kenyatta","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}