Energy CS Opiyo Wandayi has put on notice illegal occupants of the five-acre Kenya Pipeline Company land at Port Reitz in Mombasa.
The land, which is next to the Kipevu oil storage facility and adjacent to the Kenya Petroleum Refineries Limited storage facility at Port Reitz, has been the subject of a prolonged court case which ended in KPC’s favour.
“It is a matter that is protracted but which I am committed to solve once and for all,” Wandayi said on Thursday in Mombasa after a tour of the area.
The squatters have built their structures at the foot of the oil pumps that pump petroleum products out of the facility to the main line that goes to Nairobi.
According to the CS, the continued stay of the people on the land endangers their lives.
“If something is to happen to our facility at Kipevu, then a lot of fatalities will happen and that is something we can’t allow to happen under our watch,” he said.
Wandayi also noted that if something happens on the residents’ side that would occasion damage to the facilities at Kipevu and Port Reitz, there would be a terrible loss for the country.
