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"speaker_name": "Hon. Njeru",
"speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Lands, Public Works, Housing and Urban Development",
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"content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, the Land Registration Order, that is registration Unit Order 2017 provides for the establishment of land registration units countrywide. Currently, the Ministry has gazetted 71 land registries countrywide, out of which 63 are fully operational and covering 41 counties. In 2021, the registry gazetted eight more registries to further decentralize the services. However, they are not operational due to various challenges such as lack of space equipment, insecurity and inadequate staffing, amongst others. So far, there are only two counties, that is Mandera and Wajir, where land registries have not been established. However, plans are underway to establish land registries in these two counties. On measures by the Government to ensure full operationalisation of the Samburu Land Registry, I wish to respond as follows- The County government had offered some office space in the basement of the Governor's building. However, it posed a challenge to access by the clients and the public. The national Government is however constructing a land registry at Maralal. The Samburu Land Registry offices block at Mararal is half-complete; it is 50 per cent complete. There are major works that the contractor on site is expected to do. Due to the auxiliary measures, the allocated budget was reduced to zero in the last financial year, thereby leading to stalled processes. However, the Government has allocated Kshs17 million in the FY2023/2024 towards the completion of the project. The estimated budget to complete the whole project is Kshs42,389,713. The National Treasury will allocate adequate funds to have the project implemented soonest possible. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I bring the attention of the House to the fact that most land in Samburu County is owned communally under the Community Lands Act, 2016. However, there are leasehold properties in townships. The Government has, therefore, been fast-tracking the processing of titles and leases in the County. Earlier this month of June, Samburu County Government in conjunction with the National Land Commission (NLC) issued 2,607 letters of allotment for a plot in Maralal Township and 2,000 letters of allotment are currently being processed. The Ministry is waiting to receive the allotment letters for processing of lease documents. Further, community land management boards for the various community groups in the County have been gazetted. Our adjudication officers and surveyor are in Samburu recording interest in land and resolving disputes where demarcation is currently on-going. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, on deployment of a land registry to Samburu County, I wish to respond that the Ministry in early 2022 posted a land registrar to Samburu County. However, the office space that was provided for the registry was not adequate and not accessible to the community. The County Government had offered an office in the basement of the Governor’s building. The land registry is, therefore, currently working from Nyahururu where the records are kept and maintained. The Government is committed to posting back the registrar back to Maralal once the Samburu Lands Registry Office Block – the Samburu Ardhi House at Maralal is complete. I submit, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir."
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