The Ndungu Report: Land & Graft in Kenya | Land Portal

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Date of publication: 
March 2005
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ISBN / Resource ID: 
mokoro:5564

This summary of the Report of the Ndungu Commission on Illegal and Irregular Allocation of Public Land provides an insight into a critical recent episode in the struggles over land and graft in Kenya. Includes land and demography in Kenya; the law relating to the allocation of land; the Commission’s findings – (1) urban, state and ministries’ land, (2) settlement schemes and trust lands, (3) forest lands, national parks, wetlands, riparian resources and protected areas; the Commission’s recommendations; commentary. Kenya is faced with landlessness on a large scale and with recurrent land disputes among individuals and between communities. Government has just set in train a National Land Policy Formulation Process to try to sort out these underlying problems, including those thrown up by the Ndungu Commission.

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Author(s), editor(s), contributor(s): 

Roger Southall

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