What was rather glaring was the fact that although the Ministry of Lands was adamant that it did not have the documents, its counterpart, the National Land Commission had some but accused the ministry of withholding others.
Owing to missing documentation, the legislators are now warning of a looming financial crisis in the country if the issue on issuance of title deeds is not sanitised.
“Being told that our land registry cannot actually tell us the ownership of this land actually spells doom not only for the land sector the entire economy upon all this loans and mortgages have been given,” Kihagi added.
Ngilu further claimed that Muchanga and Telesource were not the only parties interested in the land, that there were more claimants who benefited from the land after subdivision including Wananchi Supplies ltd, Highway Commodities ltd, Ezy Enterprises ltd among others.
The CS also denied knowledge of the claims that 40 MPS are beneficiaries from the subdivision further asking those with information to submit it.
The Lands CS now has until Tuesday next week to furnish the committee with the documents supporting the registration, ownership, transfer and subdivision of the controversial Karen land estimated to cost over Sh8 billion.
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