The Government to implement radical proposals contained in Sessional Paper No 3 of 2009, which becomes the first comprehensive document governing land matters since independence.

To do so, the Government will craft legislations to ensure the provisions aimed at addressing the land question becomes a reality. With its passage, all land laws will be consolidated and a National Land Commission established as the custodian of public land and to administer all land across the country.

The Government has also been given the green light to reduce the controversial colonial 999-year leases to 99 years, which has been fiercely opposed by beneficiaries. This will ensure foreigners have no hold on the vital resource for eternity but local peasants are on notice too that they will not enjoy absolute will to subdivide their land. It also sets the stage for redressing historical land dispossession in Coast and Rift Valley provinces by restoring the historic claims of indigenous communities.

The Government is expected to address historical dispossession of tribes by colonial and post-colonial regimes and to reopen land allocations since 1895. Other changes that would alter land use include developing new land tenure systems and laws, recognition of community/ indigenous/customary land rights. The Government is also expected to introduce land banking to ensure the State has land for emergency services.

The policy defines historical land injustices a