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Central lands registry permanently shut in digital shift

The central lands registry in Nairobi has been shut permanently after its operations were migrated to an online platform, allowing for remote access to services. Lands Cabinet Secretary Faridah Karoney said all documents stored at the registry will be transferred to their respective home counties while those related to properties in the capital city will be moved to the Nairobi registry. “The records will be taken to their home registries. The records concerning Nairobi will be transferred to Nairobi Registry,” she said adding that the ministry is shifting its service delivery to an online platform dubbed National Lands Information Management System (NLIMS) or Ardhisasa. Ms Karoney said this will mark the end of manual processing of documents in Nairobi which created room for fraud. Most of the records at the central registry are linked to land parcels initially owned by colonial white settlers in areas such as Nyeri, Nanyuki, Eldoret, Kapsabet, and Nakuru. It also has records of Nairobi’s prime areas, initially occupied by the colonial government masters, such as Karen and Westlands. The CS said Ardhi Sasa is manned round-the-clock by a team of 40 staffers who are equally split on two day and night shifts. The team helps…

Kenya launches digital land information platform

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta on 13th April launched Ardhisasa, a digital land information management system aimed to bring efficiency and transparency to the land sector in the country. The new system, which marks the end of manual land transactions in Nairobi, was developed by a team of Kenyan techies over a three-year period and is designed to enhance the security of land records, speed up land transactions and curb fraud. “The full rollout of the program will facilitate the resolution of historical land disputes and guarantee the security and sanctity of your land title deed,” Kenyatta said during the launch of the new system in Nairobi. Kenyatta said that the digital platform will protect them from exploitation by cartels, middlemen and fraudsters, noting that with the advent of Ardhisasa, missing files, perennial fraud, corruption, and illegal land transactions will be a matter of the past. He said that the new digital platform will benefit all landowners and potential landowners by providing accurate information required to support the commercialization of land in a convenient and timely manner. Ardhisasa project also saw the production of Kenya’s first digital topographical map and those of the nation’s 47 counties, as well as a cadastral…