Through the Ministry of Lands on Monday, July 8, the National Government launched the Ardhi Sasa system to deter land grabbers and fraudsters.
Speaking in Murang’a County during the launch, Cabinet Secretary Alice Wahome stated that it was an improvised version of what was initially used in Nairobi.
In the new system, landowners will receive real-time alerts when someone tries to access their land records.
“Beginning today, those problems (of land grabbing) are matters of the past. No one will be able to fraudulently tamper with your land ownership records,” CS Wahome assured Kenyans.
“The Ardhi Sasa system is designed to alert you by telephone and email, being a landowner anytime there is an attempt to conduct a transaction on his/her land.”
Landowners were urged to register their property into the system as the alerts would only be sent to those who have captured their details into the Ardhi Sasa database.
Currently, the system is only available for property owners in Nairobi and Murang’a counties.
Plans are underway to make the system accessible in Isiolo, Marsabit and Mombasa before a nationwide rollout.
“Our objective is to ensure the platform becomes accessible in all parts of the country within the shortest possible time frame,” CS Wahome explained the future of land records.
CS Wahome heralded the launch of Ardhi Sasa as a milestone in the nation’s growth and land governance system.
“The launch of Ardhi Sasa will strengthen the security of land tenure as it has been designed to remove human interference with land ownership records,” she added.
Full digitisation of land records is one of the ways the Kenya Kwanza administration seeks to end perennial land-grabbing cases, especially in major towns.
