Coast Title Deeds & Berth 19

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Sept 16, 2013 16:50:33 GMT 3 mwamburi said:

My grand father couldn't sleep overnight as he waited for Mr. President to do some clerical work and issue him with the elusive document.Taita Taveta was the place and as you can remember Uhuru skipped the county during the last general election. Questions are arising now whether solving the historical land injustices would be solved by issuing titles which for a very long time gathered dust at the lands offices. One would ask whether 30,000 acres owned by the Kenyatta family, God knows how the family acquired should not be a priority in addressing the land problem in the region. From my conversation with many who received titles to them the duo was simply playing politics with a very sensitive and dangerous issue. Some have gone further to question the coincidence between resettlement of IDP'S and the issuance of titles.

Two weeks later reports are emerging massive land transactions.

Mwamburi,
www.nation.co.ke/news/Titles-Lamu-land-revoked/-/1056/3022818/-/lykmqy/-/index.html

Are these the ripples from the transactions!?

Jan. 6, 2016 Titles of 350,000 acres of illegally acquired land in Lamu revoked

Ownership of more than 350,000 acres of illegally acquired land has been revoked in Lamu County.

Title deeds for the 353,770 acres of land were cancelled and the land returned to Lamu County for public use.

Land Cabinet Secretary Jacob Kaimenyi told the Presidential Strategic Communications Unit (PSCU) on Tuesday evening that among the revoked documents were title deeds for 12 parcels whose notice of revocation had expired.

Prof Kaimenyi disclosed that more title deeds for land acquired irregularly will be revoked and returned to the public for “farming and other development”

found his calling at last at lands? (Kaimenyi the 'zero' at education!).

Where is that Charity Ngilu!?

www.businessdailyafrica.com/434-title-deeds-revoked-after-audit-/-/539546/3004168/-/13rugmcz/-/index.html

www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000177727/over-2-000-titles-of-grabbed-land-revoked

www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000187188/govt-revokes-title-deeds-of-353-770-acres-of-land-in-lamu


But haven't we been here before?

Revoked title deeds shakes business in real estate

Updated Thursday, March 18th 2010


Uncertainties over validity of title deeds are threatening the multi-billion shilling real estate sub-sector in Kenya. Cases of the missing documents at Nairobi’s Ardhi House, the Ministry of Lands headquarters, are keeping away some prospective developers. The recent move by the Lands Minister James Orengo to repossess title deeds over irregularities has thrown the industry into further confusion. Real estate agents say clients who bought large tracts of land to erect residential and commercial premises are hesitant because of doubts raised on the validity of land documents now in their possession.

About three weeks ago, leading to the Orengo’s stern action, the ministry raised a red flag over the presence of cartels at Ardhi House. Citing irregular allocation and lack of legitimate interest in the issuance, Orengo cancelled 137 title deeds. Most of the repossessed prime parcels of land were in Nairobi under the ownership of powerful individuals. "We have repossessed government property worth billions of shillings from senior people including a Cabinet minister," Orengo said.

Read more at: www.standardmedia.co.ke/lifestyle/article/2000005866/revoked-title-deeds-shakes-business-in-real-estate

Will Kaimenyi see them off to Kamiti? lets take bets on his balls!

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prelude

A number of questions arise to which, so far, no answers have been offered.

First, if indeed a new mega project was to be initiated for a vast agricultural project at the Coast, were the leaders of this region consulted? Were any attempts made to consider whether providing these new seed varieties, advanced fertilisers and irrigation to tens of thousands of smallholder farmers all over the Coast might not yield the same proposed benefits while financially empowering these farmers at the same time?

In other words, how is it possible that billions of shillings are being spent on a vast white elephant agricultural project at the Coast while the hundreds of thousands of smallholder farmers in that region have never been offered what was supposed to be the foundation of the Galana Kulalu Scheme – that is irrigation, improved seed and better fertiliser and, above all, a ready market for the harvest?

By any measure, this is an incredible injustice. Here is a clear example, in real time, of what happens when a region does not have a leadership strong enough to stand up for its people and to demand that local priorities must point the way for any new development project. It would be funny if it weren’t so tragic. Because, from our point of view at the Coast, all those billions dedicated to the Galana-Kulalu Ranch might as well been poured out into the Gala River and washed out to sea.

This money did not create any jobs worth talking about for the hundreds of thousands of unemployed of the Coast. It did not produce economic opportunity for the local farmers. It did not educate any local farmers in scientific agricultural methods for boosting their maize production. And it did not create any new infrastructure that might benefit the local people, whether the project succeeded or failed.

Speaking to the press during a parliamentary committee investigation into the Galana-Kulalu project, the MP for Mukurweini, Hon Kabando wa Kabando, was quoted as saying: “There is a problem at Galana. One could be excused for thinking this is another cash cow: This could turn out to be another scandal.”

He should have added this will always happen to any region that does not have a leadership strong and aggressive enough to promote its own people’s interests at the national level.

www.the-star.co.ke/news/2016/01/09/the-injustices-of-white-elephant-projects-the-galana-kulalu-ranch_c1270967

back to the topic at hand

Several things have happened during Uhuru’s stay, including high level “surrenders” and arrests of terror suspects in Mombasa and Malindi. Campaigns ahead of the Malindi Town constituency by-election began during his stay and this morning, Uhuru is set to issue the first batch of title deeds to squatters to be settled on the controversial Waitiki Farm.

Read more at: www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000187505/why-uhuru-has-camped-at-the-coast

samburu • 2 hours ago
Isn't issuance of title deeds a service that the government is mandated to provide to the land owners or is uhuru giving out free land? Isn't issuance of title deed the work of some junior clerk in lands ministry? Does uhuru not have more meaningful work to do than to be an overpaid clerk?

www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000187505/why-uhuru-has-camped-at-the-coast?articleID=2000187505&story_title=why-president-uhuru-kenyatta-pitched-tent-in-coast&pageNo=2