Mwangi said police were there because those behind the protest had not been licensed.
“They have to inform the police so that we can provide security,” he stated.
Rosemary Odhiambo, a parent at the institution told Capital FM News of her disappointment by the police action to teargas the children.
“We should have been told that the school is not there anymore…this is lack of respect to our children and their parents,” she said.
On January 16, the National Land Commission (NLC) said preliminary investigations showed that the two acres of land under contention near the Wilson Airport footbridge belong to the Lang’ata Road Primary School.
Speaking at the school, NLC Chairman Muhammad Swazuri said that land records show that the public institution was awarded the grant for the land in 1974 after an initial allocation of 7.5 acres in 1972.
He however explained that further investigations were necessary as land records also show that the private developer who has fenced off the land, was granted 0.6Ha of it in 1989 and 0.2Ha in 1994.
Swazuri said it was also necessary to investigate how the developer, identified as Airport View Housing Limited in correspondence over the ownership of the land obtained the necessary County Government authorisation to erect a stone wall around the land.
Until then, he said, the stone wall should come down.
He said the Weston Hotel, which is allegedly associated to the Deputy President, and which lies on the other side of the grabbed land had nothing to do with the matter.
READ: Contentious land belongs to school in Lang’ata – NLC
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