CS Charity Ngilu urges Meru residents to avoid court during land disputes

Meru, Kenya: Lands Cabinet Secretary Charity Ngilu has advised Kenyans not to go to court to settle land disputes. Ngilu said land cases are lengthy and expensive, and so alternative dispute mechanisms should be pursued.

"Some of these disputes can be solved without having to go to court," she said. She thanked the Njuri Ncheke Council of Elders who have been arbitrating in land disputes. Ngilu, speaking in Meru on Sunday after visiting various adjudication areas, said land officers are working overtime to issue 200, 000 titles within the shortest time possible.