Think-tank faults State over manual, inefficient land records

Land Development and governance institute Executive Director Mwenda Maka address members of press during a media briefing on status of service delivery in the land sector in a Nairobi hotel. Photo by WILLIS AWANDU/STANDARD

A land think-tank has faulted the Government for not putting in place an efficient online land-management system. The Land Development and Governance Institute (LDGI) says most land-related transactions are still manual.

“When you walk into many Government lands offices, you will see for yourself that records are still retrieved from the racks and what they are doing in the name of digitising is scanning some documents like title deeds,” LDGI Executive Director Mwenda Makathimo said last week when the institute released its 18th score card survey dubbed ‘Status of Service Delivery in the Land Sector’ in Nairobi.