The accord brokered by Kofi Annan as well as the TJRC report placed land reform at the heart of Kenya’s political and economic stabilityThe ‘land question’ has peppered political battles in Kenya for decades. Jubilee’s 2013 land reform manifesto was anchored on a raft of planks: Reforming registration and management; repossessing illegally acquired public land; and adjudicating and titling community land. “The law says grabbed public land titles must be revoked,” Dr Muhammad Swazuri, the National Land Commission boss said. Now, given the existing circumstances, it is very difficult to place the Commission in the country’s land reform. The Failure of Land Law Reform in Kenya thus, “When law is the favoured means to improve land governance, reform has tended to focus on land law at the expense of other legislation”.

Source: Daily Nation February 13, 2017 22:27 UTC