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| National Land Commission chair, Mohamed Swazuri Photo file |
The boards are expected to represent NLC at the county level through the county executive members in charge of land. Speaking yesterday during the last day of a two day training for the lands county executive members at Pangoni hotel Mombasa, NLC chair Mohamed Swazuri, said they need time to finish up the laws and regulations.
“We cannot rush up the process just for the sake of few individuals. We need time to conduct comprehensive research on what kind of people should be in the land boards,” he said.
Swazuri said they are consulting the public and land stakeholders so that they can contribute on the level of qualification of all the board members.
He said some governors in the country have started complaining about the delay but they wont rush the process just to please few individuals. “We will work within out time limit,” he said.
Meanwhile, majority of all public institution have complied with the NLC notice and submitted their audit report of their inventory properties.
Swazuri said about three-quarters of public institution in the country have submitted their report to the commission which includes, land movable assets and other resources.
He however, said some counties have raised excuses that they were given the notice on short term and they need some more time to compile the report.
“We have given them an extension period but not later that the end of August,” he said. The report should capture all the land owned by the county government and some of the natural resources to avoid conflict with private developers in future.
Currently NLC is educating different county officials on land Act and the commission's mandate in the country. The chair, said for the last three weeks they have engaged Governors and other county officials in charge of land, so that they can create a mutual relationship between them and the counties.
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