They are not keen on issuing titles because once they issue them they have no control anymore. It would mean their manipulations and hold on the land would come to an end and that's what scares them.

Why do councils take rates from people even when the land has issues or ownership is disputed?

@Mle...

Sewage is the job of Nairobi water co, not kanjo

talking of sewage reminds me of the city council land bought from embakasi ranching company in the area that's now under the management of Nairobi Water Company. The land is earmarked for expansion of sewerage pond area and that piece of land has been used to mint money from people the syokimau way. First they pretend they are settling squatters there and later on they start selling to other land hungry people who are issued with fake certificates. a plot is sold to more than 10 people: you buy a plot and once u fence, some youths steal your posts and sell them and the next day the same plot is sold to someone else. All this under the patronage of some politicians working together with their cronies to enrich themselves. Of late there are people subdividing land even in the area where the treatment ponds already exist, on the area between the ponds and the river that joins nairobi river, that space that the discharge channels from the ponds to the river are located. they say they have authority from some big man in the lands ministry and some big person in government. is this the kenya we want?

i read in businessdaily sometimes back about a block 136 in ruai-embakasi ranch being Government land and i also wonder where exactly block 136 is.