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The National Land Commission (NLC) is an independent commission mandated with the responsibility of managing public land on behalf of the national and county governments in Kenya. The NLC acts as a watchdog in ensuring that no public land is misused by ensuring Kenyans have a professional outfit that minds the interests of the public as it allocates and manages public land. The National land Commission also delves in the issues of historical injustices and ways of solving them. Historical injustices of which the land question/ problem in Kenya falls are described as formal or informal wrongs committed against a community (ies) by state or non-state actors that are yet to be addressed (definition from marsgroup.org). Section 15 of the National Land Commission Act, obliges the NLC to develop a legal framework to resolve historical injustices in Kenya within two years of its operations. Historical injustices have been one of the reasons communities have been fighting each other in Kenya a casing point in the Rift Valley region that has pitied Kikuyus vs. Kalenjins in decades gone by. Also, there is a chronic land problem in Coast region where a majority of indigenous people are squatters in their 'ancestral land' emanating from the said injustices that have caused land issues in three core places in the country namely: - Rift Valley 'province' - Central 'province' - Coast 'province' The National Land Commission Act establishes the NLC and also provides rules for land management and administration in line with the principles of the land policy as outlined in the Constitution and the national land policy. The NLC is established in the 2010 Constitution of Kenya which is the current constitution. The National Land Commission Act was established in 2012 in order to make further provisions as to the functions and powers of the NLC, qualifications and procedures for appointment into the commission; to give effect to the objects and principles of devolved government in the management and administration of land. The National Land Commission has axed significant and core functions of the Ministry of Lands which includes: - Administration; - Registration; - Adjudication and settlement and - Part of physical planning This is in a bid by the NLC, to streamline land management and administration in the country. Land ministry officials to be seconded to the NLC are to be vetted afresh to ensure problems that have previously plagued the ministry are not transferred to the National Land Commission. The NLC shall manage public land on behalf of the national and county governments in Kenya. Author Bio Investing in real estate is a wealth builder for many a people and the property market in Kenya is in an upswing with more and more citizens delving into the market, especially the land buying and selling market. Build your wealth, find and buy property in Kenya today.
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