Lands Cabinet Secretary Farida Karoney and National Land Commission (NLC) Chairman Gershon Otachi met on Thursday to defuse the tension that has been building between their agencies over the proposed Land Transactions (Electronic) Regulations, 2020.
The ministry had sidestepped the commission in developing and publicising the proposed regulations, but then went ahead to say that the NLC had endorsed them, forcing Mr Otachi to write a protest letter to Ms Karoney.
“The task force that formulated the proposed regulations was not set up jointly or in consultation so as to derive any mandate to propose regulations on the commission’s behalf or by yourself and the National Land Commission,” he added.
“The commission has no problem with electronic land transactions but we want to travel this journey together with the ministry as equal partners,” said Mr Otachi.
“It was felt the meeting with the task force would not be necessary until the NLC has had adequate time to look at the task force’s report and the proposed regulations,” an officer at the commission said.
