Last month, this column highlighted the legal provision requiring that transactions for properties that are within 25 kilometres from Kenya’s inland borders or the first and second rows of the high watermark of the Indian Ocean obtain consent from the Lands Cabinet Secretary.
According to the provision, non-citizens, without such consent, could not transact on such properties. Kenya is not alone in this. The Province of Alberta, Canada, also operates provisions to control land ownership by non-citizens.
