More than 100,000 newly issued land title deeds remain uncollected at Land registries across the country.
Lands and Housing Cabinet Secretary Jacob Kaimenyi says more than 100,000 newly issued land title deeds remain uncollected at Land registries across the country.
Prof Kaimenyi appealed to Kenyans who have applied for them to pick the crucial documents saying they should not lie idle in registries after a rigorous issuance process.
“We have dispatched hundreds of thousands of title deeds in recent weeks yet only between 2 and 6 per cent of this have been collected,” said the Lands CS.
Prof Kaimenyi said State officials were puzzled by the development, adding that the Lands ministry was mulling graduating payment of attendant costs to arrest the situation.
“We are not aware whether this situation is because of the cost element to the applicants or whether some people may not be aware that their titles are in their registries already,” said the CS.
During his State of the Nation address last week, President Uhuru Kenyatta said an additional one million new title deeds had been issued, bringing the total number of newly issued ones to 2.4 million since 2013.
“We are on track to surpass our target of 3 million by 2017,” said Mr Kenyatta.
Prof Kaimenyi spoke in Nairobi when he addressed the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.
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