Nairobi, Dec. 5 -- The Commission for Human Rights and Justice has threatened to go to court to force Kahia Transporters to return 90 acres it claims it bought for public use in Port Reitz, Changamwe Mombasa County.

The commission wrote to Kahia Transporters on November 2, 2023, but has not received a response, so the human rights body says it will go to court to reverse the land transaction.

The commission says the land the company claims to have bought is riparian land and therefore cannot be privately owned.

In the letter, the executive director of the Human Rights Commission and a lawyer, Julius Ogogoh, says he will go to court to seek the cancellation of the title and its immediate return to the land registry.

"We are questioning...