“Buyer Beware. None of the EAPCC properties listed are on sale. The public is advised to be wary of conmen going around taking money from unsuspecting Kenyans.” This was the message on a billboard erected by the East African portland cement company.

This is after unknown people started duping the public into buying parcels of land L.R NOs 10425, 8786, 10424, 7815/1 and 8784/4 which were not for sale.

The warning was issued in June 15 2016, however hundreds of people may have either not seen the warning or ignored it all together.

Flash forward to 2023 hundreds of families are now forced to spend the night in the cold following the demolition process in controvasital 4,298 acres of land owned by the East Africa Portland Cement company.

This is after the court established that the land belongs to the company.

East Africa Portland Cement won a legal dispute to evict squatters from 1,740 hectares of land in Machakos County after claimants failed to produce documents to prove ownership.

“Buyer beware. These parcels of land are not for sale L.R NOs 10425, 8786, 10424, 7815/1 and 8784/4 located on both sides of Mombasa Road between Green Park and Daystar University. All the above parcels are the property of the East African Portland Cement Company,” the billboard reads.

In a letter dated November 13 2015 the then Machakos governor Dr. Alfred Mutua wrote to the Ethics and Anti Corruption Commission inviting the EACC to investigate alleged land grabbing of theCement firms land.

Mutua who is now a cabinet Secretary fell short of mentioning some political leaders he claimed were involved in the land grabbing scandal.

“The land, leased to East African Portland Cement Company Limited, has started being grabbed, subdivided and sold, without the knowledge of the East African Portland Cement Company Limited Board and my Government of Machakos.”