House owners set to benefit from new Nairobi unauthorised development regularisation law, says Patrick Analo
Nairobi City County Chief Officer for Urban Development and Planning, Patrick Analo says an estimated two million house owners who erected their buildings without the necessary approvals from the Nairobi County government and the defunct Nairobi City Council have a chance to get assessment and approvals on their buildings following the passing of the Nairobi City County Regularisation of unauthorised development act 2025.
Speaking during a morning interview on Ghetto Radio today, Saturday July 5, 2025, the Nairobi City County Chief Officer Analo said that those who had raised their houses without County approval especially in parts of Eastlands now have 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.
“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 NSSF but was converted to a residential area and people subdivided it amongst themselves. They have erected very 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 a d 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.
