The National Assembly Departmental Committee on Lands has met the PS for Lands and Physical Planning Hon. Nixon Korir for Consideration of Supplementary Estimates No. 1 FY 2025/2026.
The Committee led by the Chairperson Hon. Joash Nyamoko (North Mugirango) also separately met the National Land Commission (NLC) team led by CEO Ms. Kabale Tache; on the Commission’s proposed supplementary budget.
The supplementary budget has been necessitated by additional funding requirements to address emerging priorities and critical expenditure shortfalls.
WIth regard to the State Department for Lands and Pgysical Planning, the Supplementary Estimates proposes to increase the approved budget estimates by Kshs. 316.71 Billion.
It also proposes increasing recurrent and development expenditure and Consolidated Fund Services (CFS) by Kshs. 201.13 Billion, Kshs. 86.3 Billion and Kshs. 29.27 Billion respectively.
Hon. Korir indicated that although the State Department had projected to raise Kshs. 4 Billion from Appropriations in Aid collections but had only managed to collect Kshs. 1.543 Billion as at December 31, 2025 which was below the half year target.
“As a result of this underperfomance we had proposed to the National Treasury during our supplementary estimates to revise our (AIA) allocation downwards from Kshs. 4 Billion to Kshs.3.36 Billion; a reduction of Kshs. 650 Million,” noted Hon. Korir.
Regarding the NLC, the supplementary estimates proposes to increase th3 Commission’s allocation by Kshs. 1.5 Billion (representing 44.7%).
The Committee raised a concern regarding the increasing routine of the NLC losing land related court cases, thus raising eyebrows on the Commission’s commitment to help prot3ct the Government against continued loss of court cases related to land.
“We have a concern that when we have cases where NLC is accused does not turn up in court, and when they do they do it so casually that NLC and by extension loses,” noted Hon. Nyamoko.
Ms. Tache indicated that NLC was strained in terms of legal proffessionals compared to the number of cases actively in fourt against the Vommission.
“We have only 33 legal officers against over 9,000 cases that we have in court against the NLC. We need support to build capacity. However, part of what we have done is posting legal across all the regions, with proper reporting channels to the Headquatters,” noted Ms. Tache.
Committee Members also raised other land related matters of concern with the PS.
By Anthony Solly
