A huge fire has broken out at a piece of land owned by the Kenyatta family along the Eastern Bypass in Ruiru, Kiambu county.
A 17-minute video shared on social media shows fire blazing at the expansive land, where the proposed Northlands City is set to be built.
“The leader who fought for the country for ten years… His place has been set blazing … It’s on fire!” a man who recorded the video is heard saying.
The fire comes hours after hundreds of intruders invaded the land on Monday morning where they cut down trees using power saws and made away an unknown number of livestock.
Brookside Dairy and Peponi School are situated inside the vast property that stretches for acres.
The 11,000-acre land is part ambitious project to build Northlands City, a Sh500 billion dream city that will host a population of over 250,000 people once completed.
The Kenyatta family is undertaking the multi-billion-shilling project through their company Brookside Holdings Ltd.
The master plan for the project indicates that 3,750 acres is set aside for housing, 695 acres for an industrial park, 390 acres for a business district, and 1,697 acres for open recreational space.
The remaining 5,156 acres are set aside for wildlife conservation and agricultural purposes.
Azimio la Umoja One Kenya coalition leader Raila Odinga, whose gas plant East Africa Spectre Limited was also attacked by goons, blamed Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua for the attacks.
