National Land Commission Hearing Sessions a Shouting Contest

I attended a hearing on Monday, 19^th December 2016 at the National Land Commission chambers. At the beginning of every session is a National Anthem and a word of prayer. This might give you a glimpse hope of organizational behavior, seriousness, professionalism and rational conduct of the commission. However, what you see is what you don’t get.

The mandate of the National Land Commission (NLC) is drawn from the National Land Policy of 2009, Constitution of Kenya 2010, National Land Commission Act, 2012, the Land Act 2012 and the Land Registration Act of 2012. A cursory look at its mandate discloses the role they supposedly play in realigning the historical land injustice. That might require some seriousness of sort in the hearing of public reviews which the commission is obligated by law to conduct, and has indeed undertaken the role, quite questionably.