Reckless Financial Spending Denies Youths Ancestral Land in Nandi

Kapsabet, Thursday, June 8, 2023

KNA by Allan Too/Geoffrey Satia

Parents in Nandi County are reluctant to subdivide their pieces of land among their children after it emerged that most youths were ready to sell apportioned land and engage in reckless spending including gambling.

Nandi Central Deputy County Commissioner Obed Mose says the challenges that Nandi County Land Control Board faces revolves around succession where parents especially those with advanced ages fear handing over land to their sons and daughters due to believing that they were quick to convert it into cash.

“These old men fear if they give their sons or daughters land, they might sell the land and that is their greatest fear,” said Mr Mose.

Mose further stated that they have continued public barazas to sensitise the elderly on the need to pass the land to the youth and that the trend is changing though slowly.

“We are encouraging our youth to be responsible and of good morals in order for their parents to have confidence in them,” said DCC.

This comes even as the new members of the Land Control Boards in Nandi County were sworn in on Thursday by Nandi County Chief Magistrate Samuel Mokua at the county headquarters in Kapsabet town.

108 members of 9 municipalities were sworn in following the gazetting of their names on the 16th of May this year and they are expected to work for three years.

The members are selected through a thorough process that begins with an application which is open to the public followed by interviews. The qualified individuals’ names are forwarded to the National Intelligence Service (NIS) for thorough vetting.

Once an individual has passed the NIS’s vetting, the name is forwarded to the Ministry of Lands headquarters to be gazetted.

The function of all Land Control Boards in the country is to provide legal frameworks under which the transactions of agricultural land are administratively regulated.

The DCC stated that the boards are now ready to start their operations in a bid to solve the land challenges and resolve disputes in the county.

Courtesy ; K. N. A