Members assurance to get return of their investment
The Mountain Journal
The Broad Borders Housing Cooperative Society has emerged in the top list among the players in real estate who have issued titles to their members.
This week, the society issued 1,064 documents to the members and self help groups for their parcels of land in the counties of Laikipia, Kirinyaga, Murang’a and Nyandarua.
Peter Mwai a resident of Rumuruti, Laikipia is among the members of the society who received a certificate for a parcel of land in Nyandarua.
On Saturday, the housing cooperative emerged among the few organisations that had processed the titles for the issuance to the members.
Chairman of the organization Mr Jeremiah Karemeri said the primary role of the organization is to assist the members own land for settling their families.
“The society, like hundreds of others, suffered from the Covid 19 pandemic implications as some members considered pulling out of the project due to lack of resources,” said Karemeri.
The players in the land sector welcome President’s Mashujaa Day speech where he stressed on the digitization of land registries, saying the move will help people get title deeds easily and boost investment.
He further requested the government to crack down on some land buying companies which are defrauding innocent residents of their money purporting to be in position to buy them land.
“There have been many cases of people who claim to be selling land and in reality, they don’t have land for sale. People need to be careful of these people and only buy land from well-established and known companies,” cautioned Karimeri.
Some players in the land sector, he said, have lauded the move by the government to digitize operations at the land registries to end their suffering for the long days the transaction took.
“Digitization of operations at land registries will also assist in solving land succession cases which have denied many families opportunities to develop their ancestral land” he said.
He noted that people will be able to do land search at the comfort of their homes saying it will not be necessary for one to visit the land registry for land search.
Jane Wanjiru, a member of the society lauded President Uhuru Kenyatta’s directive to have operations at land registries be digitized, saying the move has come at a time when many people have lost their money to middlemen at the land registries.
Wanjiru observed that in the past, manual land search could take a long time but with digitization, the process is expected to take a few minutes.
“The mission to move all the records in the land registries in the digital platforms is a relief. Hundreds of families have suffered under the hands of unscrupulous people who purport to help in accessing title deeds,” she observed.
Jane Kawrira from Kirinyaga observed that the process of digitizing operations at land registries will give locals confidence to invest in their lands.
“In the past a parcel of land could be allocated to more than one owner, thus prompting legal issues that consumed thousands of shillings to the conclusion”, she reflected.
Murang’a County Government Official Joseph Mbai said the county administration has embarked on an ambitious programme aimed to solve land succession cases that have crippled many families due to lack of resources.
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