Hi,

That's a utopian solution I think we need to look at leveraging what is already on the ground and your suggestion of insurance brings to mind the system that insurers implemented based on simple SMS updates that is used to notify all insurance companies of insurance claims filed for a particular car or person.

This has greatly reduced the cases of people taking out multiple covers and then making claims, on the other end the CDSC is enforcing mandatory SMS notification for activity of the securities they hold just like banks have done with ATM withdrawal SMS notifications.

What is required at lands is a way to notify a land owner every time there is activity relating to a title via SMS, this will allow bona fide owners to be alerted before any damage is done.  

As the Syokimau fellows had said they had paid rates on the land, KPLC had supplied electricity and they had piped water which suggests that these organisations need access to the database which can be based on a quick query of the lands database by SMS to confirm the details of ownership. 

I realised recently when applying for a mortgage that a property we have owned for over 10 years have different ownership information across the various organisations.  A search at lands produced the correct name when we did a title search and a different name when we had a record search done.  The city council has yet a different name in its rates records.

It took us over 2 months and over 100,000/- to harmonise all the records across the various government agencies but its an amount well spent based on the value of the property in question.

So as we await a government that can see the benefit of accurate record keeping and "shared access" the onus is on you to carry out the due diligence on existing and future property ownership, your house might just be sitting on the mosquito flight path and might be blamed for the rise in malaria infections in your neighbourhood.

Regards

"The technology exists but unfortunately there is no willingness to implement it by the relevant authorities"

 
Robert Yawe
KAY System Technologies Ltd
Phoenix House, 6th Floor
P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200
Kenya

Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696
From: Mwangi James Wamae <mwangi.wamae@gmail.com>
To: robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk
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Matunda:

It has been a while my brother, hope you're well.

There is, perhaps, a private sector play that is possible here:  Title Insurance.  The seller of the land pays to get a "Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval" from Title_Insurance_Co, then the buyer pays to get a policy that would make her whole in the event of a successful claim on that title.

With all the nonsense going on with Kenyan land I'm surprised this industry has not surfaced.

We are not experiencing anything that hasn't occurred elsewhere.  Let's take lessons from the real "Wild West".

-Mw
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