NLC says it needs money to fast-track the issuance of titles to safeguard land belonging to schools.
The commission said it faces challenges when dealing with schools in settlement schemes and ranches.
The National Land Commission has issued title deeds to 2,070 out of 27,000 public schools in the country.
Abigael Mbagaya Mukolwe, the NLC vice chairperson, told Parliament that the commission needs money to fast-track the issuance of titles to safeguard land belonging to schools.
She said the commission has faced challenges in the issuance of the documents to schools, including lack of parcel numbers given that most education officers at the county level do not know the plot numbers.
“The commission has, however, developed tools for collecting school information in consultation with county governments and education officers,” Ms Mukolwe said.
She said 2,070 schools have been issued with title deeds.
“In settlement areas the land is allocated to schools as individuals. The ministry is doing discharges of most of the 27,000 schools. A number of them have been cleared for tilting and we are negotiating with the ministry,” she said.
The NLC said it faces challenges when dealing with schools in settlement schemes and ranches.
“The ministries of Education and Lands have no budget for tilting of schools. The Lands ministry only waived costs for searches,” she said.
“We have no database for schools, rivers, riparian land, State corporations land such as those held by the Kenya Forest Service and the Kenya Wildlife Service. The acreage is unknown,” Ms Mukolwe said.
She asked Parliament to assign Sh173 million allocated to the NLC in the second supplementary budget to acquiring a national public land information management system.
“We are developing a database for all public land. We are building systems and capturing information,” Ms Mukolwe said.
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