Lands CS Jacob Kaimenyi. [Photo/the-star.co.ke]
The Lands ministry has launched the process of digitising all land registries.
According to CS Jacob Kaimenyi, the move is intended to ensure effective service delivery and minimise fraud.
Speaking during the official opening of the 51st Governing Council meeting of the Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources Development in Nairobi,Kaimenyi said the ministry will spend Sh17 billion in the digitisation programme.
“With a digital database, we will secure land documents with specific features very hard to forge. This is going to cost Sh17 billion. We have initiated that process and in due course, we believe the government is going to approve at cabinet level so that we can initiate the process of mobilising resources,” he said.
The CS said the ministry has already set aside in its budget Sh900 million for that process adding that the purpose of digitisation is to remove human to human contact to minimise corruption and ensure efficiency and effective service delivery in line with the best practices in other countries.
“We have decided that apart from digitising land records, we will digitie all data including maps databases and the entire land registration systems to have secure land documents that can only be accessed online and with strict biometric access of staff to curb fraud,” he noted.