Principal Secretary in the Ministry of Lands Dr Nicholas Muraguri on Sunday announced the temporary closure of Nairobi and Central registries at Ardhi House for preparation of online services.
Through a notice in local newspapers, Dr Muraguri stated that the offices would remain closed for 10 working days.
"Both Nairobi and Central Registries including records registry and the banking hall will, therefore, be closed to the public for 10 working days from Monday 19th March 2018. Normal Business shall resume on Tuesday 3rd April 2018.
"During this period, all services offered at these registries will not be available at Ardhi House- Nairobi. However, all other registries will remain open," the statement read in part.
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The PS justified the move as a means of improving service delivery in facilitating efficient land administration and management.
"To realize these objectives the Ministry has completed the re-engineering of business processes through an online System dubbed LIMS (Lands Information Managment System) with a view to reducing the turn-around time on service delivery.
"To achieve a fully digitized environment, the Ministry required ensuring that all the records are scanned and that the data is clean in preparation for online services. This exercise will begin in Nairobi and will be cascaded to other registries across the country," he explained.
Earlier in February during her vetting by Parliament, Lands CS Farida Karoney stated that it was prudent to digitize the records at the Ministry to avert high numbers of unresolved cases.
“I do not believe in this day and age that we should be running manual records in our ministries or in any other government organization. It is very hard to have manual records of 40 million citizens and once my nomination is approved I will personally push for that change
"Digitization of records is the way to go and I wish to assure members of the public once my nomination is approved I would ensure that transactions get to be digitally transacted,” she conveyed.
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