Lands registry to be closed for 10 days

The Ministry of Lands on Sunday announced that the lands records registry and banking hall in Nairobi will remain closed for 10 days from Monday, March 19 as the ministry gears up for the roll out of online services.

In advertisements placed in Sunday’s local dailies, the ministry said there will be no more manual processing of documents from April 3rd when the process is finalised.

“To achieve a fully digitized environment, the Ministry requires to ensure that all the records are scanned and the data is clean in preparation for online services,” read part of the announcement.

The exercise will begin in Nairobi and will be cascaded to all other Registries across the country.

Services that will be available online on the e-citizen platform include transfer of ownership, issuance of consent, valuation requests, payment of stamp duty, registration and consent fees.

Registration of land documents, searches, application as well as withdrawal of cautions and restrictions will also be available online.