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Moi’s Bridge Set for Major Facelift as It Prepares for a Town Status – Where to Buy Land

  Locals in Mos’s Bridge Township and its environs will soon start enjoying improved services following the Uasin Gishu County’s efforts to elevate into a town.   As the county works on meeting the criteria for Moi’s Bridge to be a town, several projects have already been rolled out in the township that lies at the border of Trans Nzoia and Kakamega counties.   One of the major development currently going on in the area is infrastructure development.   Several roads that will connect to a number of key public utilities are being tarmacked around Moi’s Bridge in what will come as a blessing to landowners as usually new roads come with a rise in land prices.   According to Uasin Gishu Governor Jackson Mandago, road works at Moi’s Bridge Township are currently at 65 per cent complete.   “This will improve connectivity and access to vital public utilities as we prepare Moi's Bridge for an elevation to a Town status,” Mandago noted. Recently, Uasin Gishu County Executive Com

Circumstances Under Which Consent To Use Agricultural Land Can Be Denied – LAND ACT (PART TWO)

  Under the Land Act, powers to grant or deny consent to an individual wishing to utilize an agricultural land is vested on the Land Control Boards. When deciding whether to grant or refuse consent in respect of a controlled transaction, a land control board shall have regard to the effect which the grant or refusal of consent is likely to have on the economic development of the land concerned or on the maintenance or improvement of standards of good husbandry within the land control area. The board shall also act on the principle that consent ought generally to be refused where the person to whom the land is to be disposed of — (a) Is unlikely to farm the land well or to develop it adequately; or (b) Is unlikely to be able to use the land profitably for the intended purpose owing to its nature; or (c) Already has sufficient agricultural land; Find Property in Uasin Gishu County Baoriat Agencies Call: +254 721-554-937 The person to whom the share is to be disposed of can al

LAND ACT: All You Need To Know About Laws Controlling Transactions in Agricultural Land (PART ONE)

  Land Control Act, also known as the Land Act is an Act of Parliament enacted to provide for controlling transactions in agricultural land. The ACT describes agricultural land as land that is; -           Not within a municipality or a township; -           An area which was, on or at any time after the 1st July 1952, a township under the Townships Act (Cap. 133, 1948 now repealed); -           An area which was, on or at any time after the 1st July 1952, a trading centre under the Trading Centres Act (Cap. 278, 1948 now repealed); Find Property in Uasin Gishu County Baoriat Agencies Call: +254 721-554-937 -           A market; -           Land in the Nairobi Area or in any municipality, township or urban centre that is declared by the Minister, by notice in the Gazette, to be agricultural land for the purposes of this Act, other than land which, by reason of any condition or covenant in the title thereto or any limitation imposed by law, is subject to the restriction that