Published on July 5, 2025 by Kariuki Mwangi
Last Updated on 10 months by Kariuki Mwangi
The Nairobi City County Chief Officer for Urban Development and Planning, Patrick Analo Akivaga announced that the Nairobi city county government plans to reach out to an estimated two million house owners in Nairobi to assist them with compliance with the county planning and building approvals following the enactment of the Nairobi City County Regularisation of unauthorised development act 2025.
According to Analo, an estimated two million house owners who erected their buildings without the necessary approvals front the Nairobi County government and the defunct Nairobi City Council now have a chance to get assessment and approvals on their buildings giving owners a chance to set aside the constant fears of demolition as the law allows the county to assess buildings and advice the owners in the renovation that can be done for the buildings to be approved.
Speaking during a morning interview on Ghetto Radio, Saturday July 5, 2025, Analo said that those who had raised their houses without County approval especially in parts of Eastlands will be re assessed and houses that do not meet the required standards given grace period to comply.
“This new law will help in regularisation of those buildings which had been developed without approvals. For example when you look at Tassia estate, the land belonged to the National Social Security Fund but was converted to a residential area and people subdivided it amongst themselves. They have built big houses there but they did not get approvals so they don’t pay land rates and also they don’t get some amenities. This law will now come to look at such areas and solve the issues so that the residents now can get all the amenities from the county government while they too can be paying their land rates. The same goes to areas like Kayole, Dandora, Mwiki, Kasarani and many other parts especially in Eastlands,” Analo said.
Speaking on the development that has been done within the Nairobi Central business district CBD, Analo noted that the city transformation was done with a view to create a beautiful world class city and called on those taking part in demonstrations to avoid destruction of public and private property.
On the planned SabaSaba demonstrations planned for Monday July 7, Analo called on the protesters to be peaceful as the county government is committed to provide necessary emergency evacuation services to anyone in the city, whether a protester or a passer by who might get injured.
Analo estimated that Nairobi has lost almost Ksh. 3 Billion to protests in terms of lost working hours and physical damage to public and private damage this year alone.
“When there are protests, people don’t open their businesses and therefore the economy is at standstill. The destruction of infrastructure like what we say the other time people burning our litter bins, destroying cabros on pavements burning tires on the tarmacked roads, destruction of lights and much more, that should not be the case. I urge protesters to be peaceful and not to destroy or loot people’s businesses, ” he said.
