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Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta (l) and Lands CS Farida Karoney (r). Photo: Ministry of Land.

Kenya to launch digital portal for land records in July 2022

Lands CS Farida Karoney said the National Land Management System (NLIMS) will go live at the end of July 2022

by Wanjiku Njugunah
June 28, 2022
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  • Kenya’s Ministry of Lands and Physical Planning said that plans to digitise land records are in top gear 
  • Lands Cabinet Secretary Farida Karoney said the central land registry dubbed ‘National Land Management System (NLIMS)’ will go live at the end of July 2022
  • Karoney said the ministry had already gazetted 84,000 land parcels set to migrate to the portal with 64,000 of them having matured

Kenya’s plan of digitising land records is in top gear, the country’s Ministry of Lands and Physical Planning has said.

Lands Cabinet Secretary Farida Karoney said the central land registry dubbed ‘National Land Management System (NLIMS)’ will go live at the end of July 2022.

Karoney said the ministry had already gazetted 84,000 land parcels set to migrate to the portal with 64,000 of them having matured.

“The law stipulates that we must wait for 90 days to close the register and migrate to the new one. We are currently processing the 64,000 so that we can go live with the second registry in Nairobi.”

The move is part of the process of conversion of all parcels from the ambit of the repealed statutes, to migrate to the purview of the Land Registration Act  2012.

Dr. Francis Kariuki, an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya and a lecturer at the Strathmore University Law School, noted that past land commissions had characterised the Kenyan land administration system as “inefficient, corrupt and archaic,” causing the present digitalisation reforms.

He observed that the digitalisation of land administration was in sync with the National Land Policy of 2009, which recommends “the consolidation, harmonisation and streamlining of all registration statutes for clarity and reduction of bureaucratic bottlenecks.”

“The beauty of this is that once you close all the other registers, you eliminate the confusion and fraud that is encouraged by parallel registers. Some people use different registration regimes to register the same parcel of land up to even five times with the motive of defrauding Kenyans,” CS said.

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The development follows a previous announcement by the CS that signalled the impending replacement of all land titles registered under the previous laws, including the Indian Transfer of Property Act of 1882, the Government Lands Act (Cap.280), the Registration of Titles Act (Cap.281), the Land Titles Act (Cap.282) and the Registered Land Act (Cap.300).

“Nairobi has two registries: the Nairobi registry and the central registry. The Nairobi registry is live, but the central registry is pending. We are waiting for the gazette notice period to lapse so that we can fully migrate this registry,” she revealed.

The CS recalled that when the Nairobi Registry went live last year, only 19,000 parcels of land were on the ArdhiSasa platform, but they are now set to surpass the 60,000 land parcels mark.

She regretted that the Ministry’s rigorous data interrogation and verification protocol had frustrated some members of the public but asserted that it was necessary to find out the accuracy, integrity and completeness of the information provided on the system.

“Over the years we have corrupted our data to the extent that it is taking so long to separate the wheat from the chaff. Many are the instances that you will hear a customer saying that the system is not working, yet the issue is either the information on your land parcel is not complete, is not accurate, or the land was acquired fraudulently. If you have land on the runway of JKIA, how can we make it available for you to transact?”

The CS noted that the transition was vital to ensure efficiency, transparency, and justice in the management of records and transactional services in the land sector. “One of the critical services of this system is the cadastre.  The land registration act dictates that we must geo-reference our land.  This requires that we must have coordinates that locate where a land parcel is.”

Karoney affirmed that the transition is in a bid to comply with the Land Registration Act 2012, a law that sought to collapse land registration processes in the repealed land registration laws into one.

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Wanjiku Njugunah

Wanjiku Njuguna is a Kenyan-based business reporter with experience of more than eight years.

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