The government has asked police to keep off land matters and only security where necessary.
It has also announced the issuance of title deeds through chiefs and their assistants as part of efforts to ensure only the right land owners get the documents.
Gideon Mung’aro, who is the Chief Administrative Secretary in the Lands ministry, said police will only protect the public.
"I instruct the county commissioner to ensure only officers from the ministry handle land matters," Mung'aro said on Monday. He spoke
at Kwakathoka Agricultural Training Center
in Makueni during the county's first lands conference.
"This trade of armed police being used to evict residents in land disputes must come to an end."
The CAS asked members of the public to take their grievances to the ministry or Governors' offices,
through provincial administrators or elected leaders.
Mung'aro further announced that the government will issue
350 title deeds countrywide every three months.
Forty seven thousand will be given in Makueni this financial year.
The secretary also said that
sub-county committees will be established to lead the issuance of the titles. The team will include representatives from the offices of Governors, the county commissioner and the National Land Commission.
"When issuing title deeds, we will only trust information from these committee since it will have representatives from the ground, not people from the city," he said.
Forty one thousand titles were issued at the conference that
Lands commissioner Rose Musyoka and Makueni Governor Kivutha Kibwana attended.
Kibwana
said his office was working closely with the national government to solve the county's "alarming" land problems.
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