{"id":16452,"date":"2024-09-25T13:01:33","date_gmt":"2024-09-25T13:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=16452"},"modified":"2024-09-25T13:01:34","modified_gmt":"2024-09-25T13:01:34","slug":"ministry-of-lands-seeks-ksh35-billion-for-nationwide-digitization-of-land-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=16452","title":{"rendered":"Ministry of Lands Seeks Ksh35 Billion for Nationwide Digitization of Land Records."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"703\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/lands-cs-alice-wahome-speaking-at-the-institution-of-surveyors-of-kenya-isk-pre-agm-conference-on-may-8-2024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16453\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/lands-cs-alice-wahome-speaking-at-the-institution-of-surveyors-of-kenya-isk-pre-agm-conference-on-may-8-2024.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/lands-cs-alice-wahome-speaking-at-the-institution-of-surveyors-of-kenya-isk-pre-agm-conference-on-may-8-2024-480x482.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 700px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ministry of Lands and Physical Planning requires Ksh35 billion to digitize all land records in Kenya, Cabinet Secretary Alice Wahome announced on Wednesday. Speaking during a meeting with stakeholders in Nairobi, CS Wahome disclosed that the ministry has already digitized land records in Nairobi and Murang\u2019a counties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She further revealed that similar projects are set to be launched in Marsabit and Isiolo counties as part of the government&#8217;s nationwide initiative to digitalize land records. The entire process is expected to be completed in the next five years, aiming to curb the rampant fraudulent buying and selling of land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wahome highlighted that many Kenyans have fallen victim to land scams, losing their hard-earned money to fraudsters who exploit gaps in the current record-keeping system. She pointed out that these cartels often collaborate with corrupt officials to manipulate or steal land files, making verification of land ownership difficult.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Lands and Physical Planning requires Ksh35 billion to digitize all land records in Kenya, Cabinet Secretary Alice Wahome announced on Wednesday. Speaking during a meeting with stakeholders in Nairobi, CS Wahome disclosed that the ministry has already digitized land records in Nairobi and Murang\u2019a counties. She further revealed that similar projects are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":16453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/lands-cs-alice-wahome-speaking-at-the-institution-of-surveyors-of-kenya-isk-pre-agm-conference-on-may-8-2024.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16454,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16452\/revisions\/16454"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}