Land issues will be a worry in the past after Food and Agriculture Organisation pledged to fast track land governance program in Isiolo County .
According to the organisation, Isiolo will be cluster lead for Northern Kenya in terms of the support it will offer.
Under the governance of Abdi Hassan Guyo, the county will establish a Geographical Information System (GIS) whose laboratory will be fully equipped.
It will also consist of trained staff on digitisation of Land records in the county.
The GIS will capture, store, analyse, manage and present all types of geographical data of the county and will integrate Isiolo’s key services, such as revenue collection.
The system, which is also being used by Nairobi County will make it easier to access digitised information.
Governor Guyo said the land governance program will be a relief and a permanent solution to solve land issues, which are among top challenges in the county.
“The support Isiolo will get in terms of the governance program will go a long way in bringing solutions to many unsolved cases,” he said.
Guyo spoke on Friday when he met with UN Complex FAO Kenya representative Carla Macavi and team leader Husna Mbarak.
Disputes over land ownership pitting communities in Isiolo and the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF), especially in Burat and Ngaremara wards, have continued to hinder development of properties, with residents expressing fears that they could lose their ancestral land.
Communities living within the School of Infantry, School of Artillery and that of Combat Engineering have even sued the military over alleged encroachment into their land, and hiving off, of hundreds of acres of land, displacing hundreds of families and threatening their economic activities such as farming.
