Staff transfers that could negate Ngilu, Swazuri truce

Lands Cabinet Secretary Charity Ngilu and National Land Commission Chairman Muhammad Swazuri at a past function. The two recently “buried the hatchet” and vowed to work together but this new found truce could be under threat following disquiet over transfer of personnel. INSET: Ardhi House in Nairobi where the Lands ministry is located. [PHOTO: FILE/STANDARD]

Nairobi,Kenya: Officials at the Lands ministry and their counterparts at the National Land Commission (NLC) are at logger heads over transfer of 500 officers from the ministry to the commission.

About half of these officers have since declined to take up the transfers and have returned their appointment letters to NLC.