National Land Commission Chairman Prof Mohammad Swazuri has said that United States International University-Africa (USIU) is the only party that has submitted its documents to the disputed Muthaiga land while retired President Daniel Arap Moi is yet to submit his papers to the National Lands Commission.
Prof Swazuri said they have already received all the information regarding the disputed land from the Cabinet Secretary for Lands, and on Thursday they wrote to both parties requesting them to surrender their papers soonest.
“We officially wrote to them on Thursday and asked them to bring their documents to us by Monday or Tuesday next week then after that we will make follow-ups,” he told the media in an interview in Nairobi.
However, because of the sensitivity of the matter, he said they are going to conduct a visit to ascertain the correct information about the land since they don’t necessarily rely on what they get from the involved parties involved.
Prof Swazuri said they are going to look at the process through which the land was transferred to the said people.
He noted, “From the preliminary analysis, I think the best way that we are going to do is to call for a public review, a mandate we are allowed to do by the law.”
The NLC chairman said resolution on the disputed land will depends on how quickly they acquire documentation.
“Certainly it cannot be truth that both of them have titles to the same land. One of them is not genuine even if they are told that there are two numbers to the same parcel of land, then one of them obtained the number fraudulently," he said.
Prof Swazuri however promised swift action once they get hold of all the documentations from both parties.