Kirinyaga
County Government starts South Ngariama land titling process
By The Mountain Journal team
The County Government of Kirinyaga has started
document verification exercise for South Ngariama land.
benefit about 8,200 Kirinyaga residents.
for lands, Samuel Kanjobe has said that the verification was part of the
titling process for the land whose surveying had stalled for years.
take place between April 12 to April 15 at South Ngariama Chief’s Office grounds.
Kanjobe, said that the exercise is aimed
at updating the allottees register for beneficiaries and current occupants of
the land which will enable completion of surveying and the titling of the land
parcels.
partnership with Geo-Acre Surveys, the contracted surveyor.
the land will be required to produce their identification cards, allotment
letters, and original ballot while land purchasers will be required to produce the
sale agreement, identification cards, allotment letters, the purchaser’s identification
card, and the original and copy of the ballot.
of the land will be given title deeds.
we secure title deeds for the rightful 8,200 families and reclaim the public
land that has been grabbed and we will stop at nothing to ensure that it is
done.” the statement read.
into trusteeship of the defunct Kirinyaga County Council on 21/06/1965 on
behalf of the people of Kirinyaga, according to the provision of the former
1964 Constitution and Trust Lands Act, Cap 285.
allocation to the residents of Kirinyaga County according to the nine (9)
Agikuyu clans, part of which was to be designated as public land. The County
Council of Kirinyaga was then placed as the legally appropriate entity to
initiate the adjudication process of the land vide the judgment of Meru HCC 71
of 2006 court case.
surveyors to subdivide, allocate and do a cadastral survey/mapping of the same
vide memorandum of understanding dated 22nd November, 2006. In so
doing, the contractor was to assign land for public utility, for wetland
including riparian and the rest to the rightful private owners.
administrations until this year when the current administration together with
the County Assembly revived the matter and set aside funds to fast track the
process.
their joy given that this is a process they have awaited for many years. They
say that dispensation of titles will bring to an end many disputes that have
been witnessed within the land, some of which have been deadly.
Governor Anne Waiguru for coming to our aid. We will now be able to invest in
the land or even subdivide for our children since we will get title deed,” said
a jubilant Rosaline Mbugua.
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