The Ministry of Lands has launched the first phase of its "Ardhisasa" digital solution that it says will revolutionise land transactions that have been dogged by fraud and bribery.

President Uhuru Kenyatta launched the National Land Information Management Systems (NLIMS) dubbed “Ardhisasa” at National Geospatial Data Centre in Nairobi on Tuesday.

Lands CS Farida Karoney said the digital platform will enable digital transactions and end manual land transactions in the country starting with Nairobi land Registry on Tuesday.

"The first phase of the National Land Information Management System (NLIMS) has gone live. The Nairobi Land Registry is now closed to allow migration to the digital platform, Ardhisasa," said Karoney. 

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Karoney noted that the newly introduced system will curb the rampant fraud and corruption cases that have long been related with land transactions across the country.


The system is also meant to address issues arising from land registration and transfer processes such as dilapidated records, missing documents, duplication of titles, double allocation, untimely service delivery, among others.

"Ardhisasa will enhance ease of doing business in the country by shortening the period of processing various applications, whether for planning, development control, transfer of ownership or as collateral for credit from financial institutions," Kenyatta said.

Ardhisasa is also keen to rid the land transaction process of brokers or middlemen and land grabbers.

"At the click of a button, users will now be able to search and carry out various land transactions, drastically reducing human interactions, delays and other inconveniences previously experienced at land registries," the president added.. 

Manual land documents will no longer be acceptable at Ardhi House once the migration is complete and all the city registry has shut the manual registers in the city down.