Nairobi County Chief Officer for Environment Geoffrey Mosiria has secured a temporary reprieve after the High Court agreed to hear his application challenging a decision that found him in contempt of court over the Parklands development dispute.
Mosiria, who was expected to appear before the Environment and Land Court on Tuesday afternoon for mitigation ahead of sentencing, did not turn up. His lawyer, Danstan Omari, informed the court that his client had been shocked upon learning that he risked imprisonment and was subsequently taken ill, prompting doctors to issue him a four-day medical sick-off.
The bench accepted the explanation and directed that Mosiria’s application challenging the contempt finding be heard and determined before the mitigation and sentencing proceedings take place.
“We will afford your client a hearing on the application, but it will not be treated as urgent because we have other matters in between,” the court directed.
Meanwhile, the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) has launched a separate probe into allegations of forgery linked to the same Parklands case. In a letter dated November 4, 2025, Kilimani Sub-County Criminal Investigations Officer Hussein Mahat requested the Deputy Registrar of the Environment and Land Court at Milimani to furnish investigators with certified copies of all documents filed in Petition No. E012 of 2025 by petitioner Kamalkumar Rajinkant Sanghani.
The DCI said it is investigating a case of forgery contrary to section 349 of the Penal Code, reported under OB 77/30/10/2025 at Kilimani Police Station. The letter, received and stamped by the court registry, emphasized urgency in securing the court documents to aid ongoing investigations.
The developments come days after a three-judge bench Principal Judge O.A. Angote, Justice A. Omollo, and Justice C.G. Mbogo found Mosiria guilty of defying court orders that had halted all developments in the Parklands area until a proper land use and physical planning framework was put in place.
Petitioners led by Sanghani and the Parklands Residents Association accuse Nairobi County officials of ignoring the March 5, 2025, conservatory order by allowing excavation and tree cutting to continue on Jalaram Road despite the court’s explicit directive.
With both the DCI and the court now moving on parallel tracks one probing possible document forgery and the other determining accountability for contempt the Parklands land saga continues to expose the deep legal and administrative fault lines surrounding Nairobi’s urban planning battles.
