Govt ordered to release Marsabit land registry information
Justice Patricia Nyaundi Mande directed the Chief Land Registrar to provide the requested information after finding that the office had failed to respond to the company's request and subsequent directives from the Commission on Administrative Justice...
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The Milimani High Court has ordered the Ministry of Lands to release crucial land registry information for Marsabit County to Gitson Energy Limited within seven days.
- Gitson Energy Limited, developing a wind farm project, requested the information, but faced a lack of response from the Chief Land Registrar.
- The court, presided over by Justice Patricia Nyaundi Mande, ruled that the Access to Information Act and the Community Land Act mandate the release of such data.
- The case arose after the Commission on Administrative Justice also failed to secure the information for the company, leading to the High Court intervention.
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