Owning a parcel of land and hiding it will never be a secret again, as digitalised land records will betray the plan.
Land Cabinet Secretary Farida Karoney has said that her ministry aspires to issues land owners with a chip card which has details of all parcels of land that an individual owns.
She expressed her commitment to ensuring that digitisation is achieved.
“We want to make sure that you can access the services of the Ministry of Land online from the comfort of your living room. That is ongoing work and we are committed to see it is done,” she said.
The CS said that there is need to have a serious discussion on land use in the country.
“If you have 20 acres, what are you doing with it? In other countries, if you don’t use it, it is taken by the state. But because in Kenya we are emotionally [attached to] land, we have to carefully manoeuvre and request you to use the land. Why do you have agricultural land and you still buy vegetables from your local shop? Are you really serious?” she posed.
She said land is an economic resource and asked Kenyans to use it to transform their lives and not to keep it just for social status.