Humphrey Wairori Wanyonyi and Pius Mutune Wambua had been contracted to digitise records at the National Lands Commission. The two led officers to Wanyonyi’s house where six CPUs, ten hard drives, three DVD drives, three motherboards and three power supplies, nine new sticky notes, 12 used sticky notes, four used masking tapes and one HP laptop with its charger were recovered. The arrests came in the wake of increased cases of land fraud as the government moves to digitise all land records in the country to stem the vice. Lack of access to land information blamed on manual record keeping was attributed to rampant corruption at the ministry of lands. The government introduced digitisation of land records to computerise all land records including mutations, improve transparency in the land records maintenance system, digitise maps and survey, update all settlement records and minimise the scope of land disputes.

Source: Daily Nation November 27, 2020 10:30 UTC