By Joseph Kamau Waweru
Uasin Gishu Deputy Governor Eng. John Barorot has called for the digitization of services within the Ministry of Lands.
Eng. Barorot has also expressed the need for collaboration between the county government and various entities in the land sector, a move he said will ensure there is a smooth running of the administrative roles.
According to the deputy county boss, among the services that should be given priority in digitization is the issuance of title deeds to land owners.
“I want to request the Ministry of Lands that together with the county, let’s work together that we can digitize our records such that there will be no instance that we lose a file,” said Eng. Barorot.
In addition, he pointed out that moving the title deeds to digital forms will address issues that arise with the loss of hard-copy title deeds.
“Digital forms are more secure and easy to retrieve when needed since they will be in cloud form,’ noted the DG, who is also an IT expert.
Transfer of land ownership
The government has already started digitizing its records in all land registries.
Eldoret Land Registry is among those that have been rolling out the digitization exercise that seeks to address land fraud that has been rampant nationally.
Further, the deputy governor urged residents who sell land issues to embrace the act of transferring the possession of the title deed to the buyer upon change of ownership.
“When it comes to a succession of land, most of you do not actually transfer title deeds and I, therefore, want to request that it should be transferred to the people who are actually living on the land; it should be recurrent,” said Barorot.
He spoke on Thursday during the issuance of 505 title deeds to land owners that live within Hill School, Kuinet and Maili Nne areas on the outskirts of Eldoret town.
