The Ministry of Lands has launched the Ardhisasa system for land transactions in Nairobi.
In essence it represented the culmination of two concurrent activities:
i. Digitalizing of land records
ii. Conversion of land titles to conform with the
Constitution and the Land Registration Act, 2012
The first is to allow land transactions to be automated and
to eliminate the need for manual handling of the same.
Automated interactions with the system will include conduct
of searches, transfers, consents, charges and discharges and so on.
The second is to create sequential land reference numbers
for titles. This is because existing titles had been issued under different
statutes or land regimes. Upon consolidation and repeal of many of those Acts,
and the enactment of the Land Act, and the Land Registration Act, it became
necessary to convert those titles, a process that is now ongoing.
Nairobi has two land registries. The Nairobi Registry, and
the Central Registry.
The Nairobi Registry has been fully digitalized, and what
remains is data cleanup so that the new title numbers correspond with the
cadastral maps developed by Survey of Kenya.
The full list of the Nairobi registry titles with the new
LRNs will be Gazetted by end of next week.
The Central Registry digitalization of records is ongoing
and is expected to be done by end of this month/early next month, after which
it will also be Gazetted.
Land owners/customers will have 90-days to verify their
details including the LRN, and the acreage of their properties and register any
complaints.
Registering in the system
Land owners will be required to register on the system where
they will be issued with a one-time password (OTP).
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