LSK, Green Belt Movement ask Sakaja to abandon plans to build club in Uhuru Park or face lawsuit » Capital News

NAIROBI Kenya, Apr 19- The Law Society of Kenya and the Green Belt Movement demands that Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja drops the plans to build a club at Uhuru Park by Friday 6.00 pm or face a legal action.

In a statement on Friday, the Green Belt Movement and the Law Society of Kenya indicated that Uhuru Park’s vast green space will be severely impacted if it is commercialized.

“We there by demand that you immediately withdraw the pronouncements and, in a letter, signed and sealed with the seal of County affirm that Uhuru Park and all open green spaces such as parks maintained by County shall not be commercialized,” they said in a statement.

Sakaja was ordered to submit a report within 48 hours.

“My clients are willing to indulge the County not more than three days in respect to availing of documents,” read the statement.

This follows governor’s statement on his ambitious plan to introduce social facilities including a nightclub on the newly revamped Uhuru Park grounds.

Speaking on Thursday during the official handover of Uhuru Park, Sakaja announced that Nairobi County Government would be installing a Sh156 million dancing fountain within the park, among other facilities.

“We are going to issue tenders for the business facilities that are here. We have restaurants that need to be run, a PPP for people to build, there’s a Biosphere restaurant, an African restaurant, a Swahili restaurant, there is a nightclub that is going to be here,” Sakaja said.

“We agreed making noise in estates needs to stop you can come here and scream until the cows come home because that is the zone.”

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