Business Daily | by Ibrahim Mwathane
Kenya’s online platform, the National Land Information Management System (NLIMS), dubbed “Ardhisasa”, is now live. But Kenyans are yet to appreciate how momentous this is. It is a game-changer. The journey has been arduous.
It started in earnest during the sunrise years of President Mwai Kibaki’s tenure, when Amos Kimunya was the Lands minister. But no meaningful progress had been made till now.
This is not unusual in Africa. Many factors hinder the development of such systems, including lack of political goodwill, enabling resources or institutional capacity. Sometimes there’s outright sabotage from those anxious of transparent and efficient land management systems because opaque and inefficient ones serve their nefarious needs.
Lessons from elsewhere inform that it takes high-level champions for transformative land information management systems such as this to be put in place.
So what should Kenyans expect from “Ardhisasa”?…
