The Law Society of Kenya has raised the red flag over alleged inefficiencies at the Land registries countrywide.
LSK President Erick Theuri says lawyers across the country will on Friday hold peaceful demonstrations to protest against the alleged sloppiness at the offices.
He said the demos will be held across all eight regional branches of Nairobi, Coast, Rift Valley, Nyanza, Western, North Eastern, Central and Eastern.
"Advocates across the 8 LSK Branches will hold a peaceful protest march on 20.1. 2023 against delays, inefficiencies & collapse of service across the land registries. Members of the public are invited to join," Theuri said in a statement on Monday.
He said the routes protesters will take during the march will be shared in due course.
On June 2, 2021, the Ministry of Lands announced the shutdown of its Central Lands Registry at the headquarters in Upper Hill.
Then Lands CS Farida Karoney disclosed that all the files at the registry would be moved to county branches as the ministry moves to adopt a digitised filing system.
She said the ministry had resorted to the move in a bid to curb rampant corruption that had dominated the office for years.
"The records will be taken to their home registries. The records concerning Nairobi will be transferred to Nairobi Registry," she said.
Karoney explained that the decision to move the registry to counties was informed by the adoption of the new National Land Information Management System, better known as Ardhisasa.
She said the transition was vital in order to ensure efficiency in terms of the management of records and transactional services in the land sector.
"Consistently over the years, the land indicator was not doing well because of fraud, middlemen and brokers. It performed badly," she said.
While reacting to Theuri's call for protests against the alleged slackness at county land registries, senior counsel Ahmednasir Abdullahi said a similar action should be taken against the Judiciary.
"Good Mr President, but we should do the same against the judiciary...the entire court system has collapsed...completely," Abdullahi said.
