Ruiru residents have been urged to sort out their land problems through a land clinic opened at the area lands registry last month.
The month-long free clinic was opened by Lands Cabinet Secretary Farida Karoney.
The clinic, according to area MP Simon Ng’ang’a King’ara, will address multiple allocations, fraud and disputes associated with rogue land buying companies.
Ng'ang'a spoke on Friday while inspecting the lands registry.
“Everyone must seize this rare opportunity and ensure that any land-related issue they have is addressed. Once the one month ends, those who will not have presented their issues at the clinic will have to do so through courts, which usually takes a long time before a solution is found,” he said.
The lawmaker asked members of land buying companies like Githunguri Ranching Company, to have their matters solved and be issued with title deeds.
Githunguri Ranching Company has over 5,000 members and owns almost 80 per cent of the subcounty.
“We know a significant percentage of landowners in Ruiru does not have title deeds and issuance of the vital documents has been delayed by decades-old disputes. This is the best time to have the disputes solved so that everyone can be issued with their title deeds,” he said.
Ng'ang'a also called on Land buying companies to ensure their members have title deeds.
He asked the ministry to intervene and resolve leadership wrangles at Githunguri Ranching Company in Ruiru.
Two groups, one headed by John Maina and another one by Ahmed Chege 'Muislamu', opened parallel offices each claiming to be legitimate.
Members have blamed the wrangles for the delayed issuance of land ownership documents.
According to documents seen by the Star, the Registrar of Societies recognises Maina as the legitimate leader of the Githunguri Ranching Company.
The MP and other leaders had told the CS that shareholders had been thrown into confusion by the existence of a parallel set of directors.
“We plead with the ministry to set records straight and save thousands of members the agony they have been through for years,” the leaders said.
Resident Florence Nyaguthii said, “At last we can see light at the end of the tunnel. Land wrangles have been another cancer that has ravaged this region for years. Innocent lives have been lost and many left homeless by unscrupulous and notorious land grabbers. Again court cases have dragged on for many years without getting a solution to the disputes. We, however, thank God that we will get our titles and wrangles will be a thing of the past in this region,”
