Kenya’s Community Land Bill is defective

NAIROBI: On August 11, 2015, the government published the Community Land Bill 2015, triggering the process by which a new statute would be realised to deal with the assorted pieces of community land claimed by various communities across the country.

 

It seeks to address the disquiet and disputes surrounding various parcels of untitled community land, which constitute more than 67 per cent of Kenya. The Bill’s intention to remove community land from the custody of county governments is quite telling. This problem needs urgent solution because some county governments, as currently constituted, have proved to be shamelessly prone to corruption, wastage, and outright theft of public resources.