Its not about who was issued with titles but HOW were the titles issued. Hakuna bahati na sibu, by now these people would have gone to court etc.
Katiba wrote:Public land shall vest in and be held by a county government in trust for the people resident in the county, and shall be administered
on their behalf by the National Land Commission, if it is classified under— a) clause (1) (a), (c), (d) or (e); and
(b) clause (1) (b), other than land held, used or occupied by a national State organ
katiba wrote:(3) Public land classified under clause (1) (f) to (m) shall vest in and be held by the national government in trust for the people of Kenya and shall be administered on their behalf by the National Land Commission.
(4) Public land shall not be disposed of or otherwise used except
in terms of an Act of Parliament specifying the nature and terms of that disposal or use
Land Act 2012 wrote:(3) Any substantial transaction involving the conversion of public land to private land shall require approval by the National Assembly or county assembly
as the case may be.
(4) The Commission shall cause a register to be kept containing the following
particulars—
(a) public land converted to private land by alienation;
(b) names and addresses of all persons whose land has converted to
public land through compulsory acquisition or reversion of
leasehold;
(c) community land converted to either private or public; and
(d) such other details as the Commission may direct.
Land Act wrote: 12. Allocation of public land
(1) The Commission may, on behalf of the National or county governments,
allocate public land by way of—
(a) public auction to the highest bidder at prevailing market value subject to and not less than the reserved price;
(b) application confined to a targeted group of persons or groups in order to ameliorate their disadvantaged position;
(c) public notice of tenders as it may prescribe;
(d) public drawing of lots as may be prescribed;
(e) public request for proposals as may be prescribed; or
(f) public exchanges of equal value as may be prescribed.
(2) The Commission shall ensure that any public land that has been identified
for allocation does not fall within any of the following categories—
(a) public land that is subject to erosion, floods, earth slips or water logging;
(b) public land that falls within forest and wild life reserves, mangroves, and wetlands or fall within the buffer zones of such reserves or
within environmentally sensitive areas;
(c) public land that is along watersheds, river and stream catchments, public water reservoirs, lakes, beaches, fish landing areas riparian
and the territorial sea as may be prescribed;
(d) public land that has been reserved for security, education, research and other strategic public uses as may be prescribed; and
(e) natural, cultural, and historical features of exceptional national value
falling within public lands;
(f) reserved land; or
(g) any other land categorized as such, by the Commission, by an order published in the Gazette.
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