Lands Cabinet Secretary Farida Karoney has said the government is putting in place the necessary measures to deal with cartels that have infiltrated the land sector.
Karoney said it will virtually be impossible for such individuals to have their ways into the system once auditing and centralization of land documents are complete.
She said the government will open a new lands registry in Machakos county to ease the processing of title deeds.
Karoney said the Lands Ministry is waiting for funds to execute the project in the course of this year.
She said the new offices will be located in Yatta Sub-county.
Karoney said the offices will relieve the workload currently experienced by civil servants at the Machakos lands offices once their constructions are completed.
She said the Machakos lands registry is overwhelmed due to high numbers of applicants who seek for various services in a single day.
Karoney said the registry lacks enough space and has a small workforce which is currently stretched to the limit owing to a large number of people who frequent the place on a daily basis.
“One of the decisions we have made today is to create another registry in the county. So, we are going to gazette a new registry in Yatta so that we decongest this (Machakos) registry. That way we should make it clean and proper as it should be,” Karoney said.
She addressed the press at the Lands offices in Machakos town on Monday.
Karoney said her office is working closely with Machakos government and area county commissioner Esther Maina to solve the perennial squatter challenge which is synonymous in Mavoko, Athi River Sub-county
She said one of the measures the ministry is undertaking is to ensure all parcels of land in the country are registered and have genuine title deeds while those without proper ownership papers will have their issues addressed.
Karoney said to hasten this, the government intends to move all land documents currently based at the Nairobi Central Registry to the 47 county land offices to ensure members of the public do not have to travel to the city to access them there.
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