How to avoid purchase of black listed land

Kisumu county lands office. There is no compensation to property owners who acquired their investments illegally or irregularly. [PHOTO:COLLINS ODUOR/STANDARD]

What should I do to ensure I don’t buy land that has been blacklisted because the title was fraudulently acquired? Can the reports by commissions of inquiry set up by previous regimes help in resolving the confusion and uncertainties? Paul, Mombasa.

There have been three main commissions of inquiry on land matters: The Parliamentary Committee on the Coastal land Problems (1966) and Njonjo Land Commission on Land Law System of Kenya and the Commission of Inquiry into Illegal and Irregular Allocations of Public Land, popularly known as the Ndungu Land Report.