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Africa’s largest wind power firm, Lake Turkana Wind Power Limited, now risks cancellation of its title deeds for the land on which its Sh70 billion mega power project stands in Marsabit County.

This was after the High Court in Nairobi yesterday upheld its earlier finding that nullified title deeds for the 150,000 acres of community land, finding that it was illegally acquired.

While throwing out a review application by the power producer, Justices Peter Muchoki Njoroge, Yuvinalis Angima and Grace Kemei stated that Marsabit county government, the Attorney-General, the Chief Land Registrar and the National Land Commission deliberately failed to obey orders of the court issued on April 19, 2021 that gave them one year to regularise the process of allocation of the land to it.

“We note that no action has been taken for over one year since delivery of the judgment. It is the view of the court that Lake Turkana Wind Power Kenya Limited has not proffered a good reason as to why the period provided gratuitously by the court was not adequate to carry out the process of regularization,” the judges ruled.

They noted that since they rendered their decision on April 19,2021 declaring the acquisition of the land illegal and unconstitutional, one year lapsed on October 10, 2022 and no action has been taken to initiate the process by any of the government authorities involved.