Of the 35,000 parcels of land targeted for titling, only 13,000 have been verified and cleared with the rest mired in controversy.
The remaining parcels are either mired in court cases, have been criminally deleted from the register over the past 10 years, double allocated or irregularly swapped.
The State’s August I, 2018 deadline to issue title deeds and disband the controversial Embakasi Ranching Company has to overcome a messy shareholder register.
Of the 35,000 parcels of land targeted for titling, only 13,000 have been verified and cleared with the rest mired in controversy.
The remaining parcels are either mired in court cases, have been criminally deleted from the register over the past 10 years, double allocated or irregularly swapped.
This emerged at a briefing between Ministry of Land officials and the technical committee mandated by State House to conclude the exercise.
President Uhuru Kenyatta has been finding it difficult disbanding the real-estate firm, having repeatedly postponed the exercise since the initial February 1 deadline.
The exercise is now being supervised by Land chief administrative secretary Gideon Mung’aro who has put in place teams comprising the ranch management, ministry officials, National Youth Service, Interior ministry and State House representatives.
“We cannot continue like this since this is an executive order that we wind up this company by August. As things appear, we are behind schedule. I urge all stakeholders to fully co-operate if we are to meet this deadline,” he said. He added that the ranch is in a huge mess where documentation has been chaotic, making verification a tall order.
“But we are going to do all it takes to streamline this ranch’s records and make sure all those genuinely entitled to title deeds do not lose out in this exercise,” he said.
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