The names of the nine commissioners — Mohammed Swazuri (chairman), Tomiik Mboya Konyimbih, Silas Kinoti Muriithi, Rose Mumbua Musyoka, Samuel Kipng’etich Tororei, Abigael Mbagaya, Emma Muthoni Njogu, Clement Isaiah Lenachuru and Abdulkadir Adan Khalif — were forwarded to the Government Printer last evening.
Earlier, a taskforce had petitioned President Kibaki to gazette the team. Delaying the gazettement of the commission will have serious repercussions on the formulation of land laws, the National Task Force on Community Land said.
The taskforce also warned that the President’s inaction was slowing down its operations.
“Our work has been slowed down and we ask President Kibaki to hasten the gazettement of the National Land Commission before he proceeds on retirement,” Mr Odindo Opiata, an official of the team, said during a workshop at the Mombasa Inter-Continental Hotel.
The team, set up last September, is moving around the country to collect views from the public, which will be used to formulate the Community Land and Evictions and Resettlement Bills.
- Daily Nation
