The Head State was speaking at the Survey of Kenya headquarters, Kasarani, Nairobi where he opened and commissioned the new National Titling Centre and witnessed the release of the first batch comprising 750,000 new look digitalised title deeds.
The new look title deeds are safe, secure and tamper proof and mark a major milestone for the Jubilee Administration which promised three million title deeds by 2017.
President Kenyatta expressed shock that some parts of the country had been adjudicated in the late 1950s and early 1960s yet no registration nor issuance of title deeds for the same areas had been effected.
Meru and Ukambani regions have the old cases of adjudicated parcels of land but with no title deeds issued, although the problem cuts across the country.
“What were they (Ministry of Lands officials and other institutions mandated to issue title deeds) doing since 1957?” wondered President Kenyatta with obvious concern over the matter.
“They were waiting for you to be born,” quipped Charity Ngilu who is the Cabinet Secretary for Land, Housing and Urban Development amidst prolonged laughter from both the president and his entourage.
President Kenyatta said Kenyans who had waited for fifty years for title deeds will now be able to utilise their land economically.“ I am certain this will now be a thing of the past,” he added.
After extensive tour of the new National Titling Centre, President Kenyatta was full of praise for the CS and her team and immediately instructed her to double the current daily production of digitized title deeds from 12,000 to 24,000 which Ngilu said was possible subject to availability of surveying and mapping equipment.
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