[Source: Business Daily, by Stanley Ngotho]
It has also emerged that houses worth hundreds of millions of shillings might be demolished in all satellite towns in Kajiado after buyers were duped into purchasing urban centre plots owned by other people.
Most of these business and residential homeowners were allocated town plots already sold or issued to other people.
Several people have been occupying land without sale agreements or allotment letters. Other pieces of land have multiple allotment letters with different people paying different sums of money to different entities for the same land.
Some plots are being claimed by more than three people, all of whom have been paying land rates to the county government.
An ongoing Kajiado plots validation exercise has opened a can of worms, revealing that land brokers have been fleecing unsuspecting buyers in an intricate web of corruption.
The exercise is meant to identify genuine plot owners in all satellite towns.
With no official register indicating owners of the plots under the county jurisdiction, county land officers have been carrying out the exercise manually under heavy police presence.
Each plot owners is required to produce ownership documents.
Kajiado registrar Philip Murkuku said the county was cleaning up the mess through validation of plots in various urban centres. Many of them are said to have been allocated by the defunct Olkejuado County Council.
The validation process has seen more than 24,000 plots given a clean bill of health while another 225 plots have been invalidated for illegal allocation and ownership. More than 2,100 allotments are fake.
County Land executive Hamilton Persaina said they would implement a spatial plan after validation of all plots, which would be concluded later this year.
[Full article: Business Daily, by Stanley Ngotho]
