The government through the Ministry of Lands and Urban Development on Monday directed Kenyans who applied for title deeds between 2015 to 2022 to collect their documents.
The Ministry of Lands in a brief statement, announced that it had published a full list of all uncollected title deeds and urged potential applicants to cross-check their names to verify whether they have been listed.
Kenyans who applied for the documents and sought to collect them were directed to visit the ministry’s website https://t.co/7bCjTORJmD to access the full list of the title deeds.
“Our esteemed customers and members of the public are hereby notified to collect the following documents and applications that have remained uncollected as herein attached,” the Ministry of Lands announced.
Applicants whose names appeared on the list were directed to visit their respective application centres and avail their original booking forms and a copy of their national Identity Cards before picking up their documents.
"You are also notified that in due course we shall publish the same notice on our official website with the complete list of uncollected titles and documents," the Ministry stated.
The announcement comes hardly weeks after Kenyans expressed their outrage at the delays witnessed in the processing of the crucial documents that led to a surge in unscrupulous dealers who conned Kenyans off their hard-earned cash in the guise of helping them access the documents.
The directive to landowners also comes against the backdrop of recent allegations of loss in multiple title deeds in the Ministry of Lands. The Head of Public Service through a gazette notice issued on September 27, revealed that 367 title deeds reportedly went missing.
"It is notified for the general information of the public that Title Deeds bearing serial numbers listed herein are reported lost (5253001—5253367)" read part of the gazette notice.
However, the Ministry of Lands dismissed the allegations by the Head of Public Service stating that no title deeds were missing as alleged by the gazette notice. According to Lands Cabinet Secretary Alice Wahome, the documents that went missing were papers used in printing title deeds.
"The documents taken from the government printer were only papers used in printing the title deeds," CS Alice Wahome assured Kenyans even as she promised to deal with the matter.
According to the CS, the papers could only become title deeds after due process was followed and after the documents were filled with the landowner's details.
