Lands Cabinet Secretary Jacob
Kaimenyi yesterday accused cartels and dishonest ministry officials of
frustrating the government’s efforts to digitize land records (see page 12).
Digitisation could eliminate
the scourge of missing land records and reduce fraudulent transactions.
Not long ago, Prof Kaimenyi
revoked all land control boards, saying they had become havens of corruption
and grabbing. Later he instated them, pending digitisation, enhancement of
efficiency, records keeping, ease of transactions and increased revenue
generation.
In the age of Education CS
Fred Matiangi’s massive hands-on reform of national examinations this year,
Prof Kaimenyi should be making corrective action reports to Kenyans instead of
bewailing shadowy cartels and unidentified bureaucrats.
Well-publicised decision and
action points are what long-suffering Kenyans want to hear from all ministries,
not lonely cries as if in a wilderness.
The Education ministry
partnered with the Interior ministry and gave Kenya its cleanest national exams
in decades. Borrow a leaf from Dr Matiang’i, Prof Kaimenyi.
