Kisumu County plans to carry out a land audit to ascertain the ownership of all plots, Lands executive Vincent Kodera has said. These were part of the recommendations of a committee formed to look into the rising cases of land grabbing in the county. The committee, which delivered its report this week, found that there were major issues with land grabbing and most lands’ ownership could not be ascertained. “Some lands have title deeds that are nowhere in the system,” the committee’s report said in part. Kodera said that his office had written to the National Land Commission to help in the regularisation of land allocation and an assessment of all title deeds. “We have requested the commission to help us sort and form a system that will help us sort out the land mess here,” he said. However, the executive said that the residents should not worry of their land being taken away by force. “All these are just recommendations of our own audit but the final say would come from the commission,” Kodera said. The committee, which was led by county director of special programmes Eric Odida, was formed by the county government to look into the land in the county and how to sanitise the land allocation regime and issuance of title deeds. “Those that will be found to have grabbed public land or be in possession of fake title deeds should be arrested and prosecuted immediately,” the committee recommended.

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