Evictions From County Houses Begin With Tenants Owing Over Ksh. 200,000 in Rent Arrears
Following a call for collection of revenue targeted at over Ksh. 1 billion from Uasin Gishu County treasury, the Department of Housing and Urban Development is currently underway with evictions of all tenants that have accrued their rent arrears beyond ksh.200,000 as at end of March, 2023.
In an early morning visit of the Pioneer Estate Houses, Ag. Director Housing Ms. Beatrice Menjo together with the Ag. Director Urban Development Planner Jacktone Kiprop led a team of enforcement officers in an exercise aimed at recovering rent from tenants that have not paid rent since 2015 and beyond running into millions of monies owed to the County Government.
“As a department, we have established that those with arrears going over Ksh. 200,000 are more than a hundred in PioneerEstate alone accumulating to a total of ksh.22 million! We have begun this exercise and we intend to continue further until all arrears are paid fully. Today we begin with those with arrears of over 200,000 then come down to 100,000 and finally to clearance of monthly bills smoothly. We gave out notice of compliance severally and we want to appreciate those who headed the call and paid off. We shall reclaim back all houses that are in arrears,” said Ms. Menjo.
In a rejoinder Administrator Lands and Housing Mr. Sila Boit together with the principal Housing Mr. Isaac Sang said that the eviction process will be smooth and all tenants are advised to pay up the rent before their tenancy term ends.
Ms. Menjo noted that with today’s eviction alone ,the County has received a great response from the tenants with a collection hitting over Ksh. 1 million within its day one of the operation.
“The exercise hasn’t been easy but it’s all worth the effort, we hope all the tenants will comply as we also go farther to all our estates until we attain 100% compliance,” said Ms. Menjo.
Planner Kiprop, warned tenants against erasing House numbers in an effort to conceal themselves that it was punishable to renovate, adjust without seeking approvals from the Physical Planning department.
“This are Government houses and no one should do any illegal businesses or constructions within the premises, ” emphasised Kiprop.
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