The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) has arrested the Deputy Land Registrar of Kisamis Lands office in Kajiado West for allegedly demanding a bribe of Ksh. 148,000 from a complainant in order to release 74 Title Deeds that had been held without any legal justification.
Sheila Nandako, the Deputy Land Registrar, was arrested alongside her accomplice, an officer working for her named Washington Wahome.
The two were processed at Integrity Centre Police Station on Thursday and later booked at Kilimani Police Station pending further action.
The EACC, in a statement, said, “Kajiado Lands Office is among those with many complaints of corruption in land transactions. In the instant case, the Deputy Land Registrar has allegedly directly and indirectly through the named officer been extorting money from citizens seeking facilitation of land transactions.”
The commission said the arrest of the two land officials is part of ongoing operations across the country to tame and disrupt corruption at service delivery points where citizens seeking services are routinely subjected to extortion by corrupt public officials.
