Kenya to use Sh12 billion to end land fraud

Cabinet Secretary for ICT Fred Matiang'i during a stakeholders forum of the task force on the review of the broadcasting regulations held on 17/06/2015 in a Nairobi hotel. [Photo/WILLIS AWANDU/STANDARD

Acting Lands Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang'i has told a parliamentary committee that the Government will divert a Sh1.96 billion grant from the ICT ministry to the Lands docket to set up a system that will reduce manipulation of land records.

The money will boost the Sh10 billion already in the 2015/16 budget earmarked for the grand database that will have details of all land parcels in the country, their respective owners, the exact location and size of the land.