“We want to remove the stain that we are frustrating Kenyans in order to be bribed,” declared President Uhuru Uhuru Kenyatta when he made an impromptu visit at the Lands Registry in 2014.
His spoke in glowing terms about then Cabinet Secretary Charity Ngilu and what she was doing to rid the department the enduring tag of corruption and inefficiency, where a file took on average three months to be processed.