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02/09/2026

The official Kenya Gazette can often feel overwhelming to navigate, but contained within its pages are decisions directly affecting your finances, property, and local community.
In our latest legal summary, we break down Vol. CXXVIII–No. 152 to reveal:
- The 25 newly licensed Digital Credit Providers by the CBK
- Strategic state appointments signed by President William Ruto and Prime CS Musalia Mudavadi
- New mining exploration applications in Narok, West Pokot, Kitui, and Nyanza (with public objection deadlines approaching)
- Important land title verification windows across major counties
Is your preferred digital lender or county on the list?
Find out in our complete analysis here: https://legalexpresskenya.com/2026/08/31/kenya-gazette-summary-vol-cxxviii-no-152-key-appointments-cbk-lenders-mining-land-notices/

31/08/2026

August brought significant motion to the legal landscape, from high-stakes court decisions to landmark policy shifts across East Africa and beyond. ⚖️✨

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25/08/2026

Kenya Gazette Highlights 21st August 2026
- New National Cybersecurity Agency stood up.— the State Corporations (National Cybersecurity Agency) Order, 2026 — is published and the President immediately appointed Dr. Martin Koyabe as Non-Executive Chairperson of its Board for three years

- The Technopolis Act, 2026 (No. 13 of 2026) is published as an Act . The first board appointment under it followed the same day — Yvonne Ogwang to the Technopolis Development Authority Board

- Two money bills tabled: the Central Bank of Kenya (Amendment) Bill, 2026 and the Kenya Revenue Authority (Amendment) Bill, 2026.

- Political Parties Fund FY2026/27 allocations (GN 13697): 48 parties share roughly KSh 1.34 billion, disbursed quarterly. Top allocations — UDA KSh 549.97m, ODM KSh 293.78m, Jubilee KSh 128.86m, Wiper Patriotic Front KSh 68.82m, DAP-K KSh 30.15m, ANC KSh 25.37m, UDM KSh 25.62m, FORD-Kenya KSh 24.64m, KANU KSh 22.91m. Smallest: Green Thinking Action Party at KSh 555,169.

- Ukweli Party reinstated as fully registered following a Political Parties Disputes Tribunal order, with its January 2026 deregistration revoked (GN 13698);
The Humanist Party of Kenya has applied for provisional registration — objections within 7 days (GN 13699).

Appointments
Presidential: Lynette Njeru — Chair, Railway Development Levy Fund Board; Joseah Kiplangat Cheruiyot — re-appointed Chair, Kenya Medical Training College.
Joseph Gitonga Riungu chairs a newly constituted Intelligence Service Complaints Board (with Naema Somo, Lawrence Nyalle, Samwel Wakiaga, Charity Ndung'u);

Prof. Erustus Kanga re-appointed Director-General of Kenya Wildlife Service for a further three years;

David K. A. Siele re-appointed Chair of the National Labour Board;
A full Protective Security Wages Council appointed under Peter Wamoto; 4 re-appointments to the Public Procurement Regulatory Board; plus boards for NTSA, NACADA, Pest Control Products, Bukura Agricultural College, Street Families Rehabilitation Trust Fund, Lake Victoria North and Athi water agencies, Pwani University, and the Kisiwa, Rift Valley and Kajiado national polytechnics.

World Scout Parliamentary Union Kenya Secretariat established (GN 13507–13510) under the Intergovernmental Relations Act — Speaker of the National Assembly is Patron, Speaker of the Senate chairs the Advisory Committee, Poppins Omwenga Misoi is Executive Director. Domiciled in the State Department for Devolution.

Siaya County gazetted a near-complete new County Executive Committee under Governor Orengo, with Erick Abungu Odawa also named acting CEC for Finance (revoking George Nying'iro's appointment).

Land — compulsory acquisition (National Land Commission)
Several projects, with inquiries mostly set for 16 September 2026:
• Ngong–Kiserian–Isinya and Kajiado–Imaroro Roads — addendum of 6 parcels in Ngong; inquiry at Upper Matasia Chief's Office.
• Barpello–Tot–Sigor–Marich Pass (B17) Road (124 km, three lots) across Baringo, Elgeyo Marakwet and West Pokot — 35+ parcels in the Tuturung adjudication area, plus 42.93 ha of unregistered community land for the proposed Chesegon Bypass.
• Thika Water and Sanitation Project (Kiambu) — ~37.6 ha from Transebel Ltd and Meteor Properties.
• Wastewater treatment plant on Del Monte land, Murang'a — 21.7 ha from Del Monte Kenya Ltd (parcel corrected to L.R. 12158/3).
• Solar farm and water treatment works, Wote, Makueni — 0.80 ha, parcel number corrected.

The bulk of the issue's page count (4137–4158) is routine Land Registration Act notices — provisional certificates, lost titles and register reconstructions.

Enforcement and regulatory
Asset forfeitures to the government under the Proceeds of Crime and Anti-Money Laundering Act: six vehicles (Toyota Fielder, Rumion, Prado, Land Cruiser pick-up, Mitsubishi Fuso, Toyota station wagon) forfeited in ARA v. Cecilia Nyathira Wanjiru & others; and a Toyota Mark X registered to Car House Limited in ARA v. Vincent Odhiambo Nyadero. NTSA is directed to transfer ownership to the Assets Recovery Agency in both.

Communications Authority published licence conditions for the revised postal and courier market structure — four categories including a new Courier Hailing Service Provider Licence. Effective 30 days from the notice date (6 August), so around 5 September 2026.

Insolvency: Surechill Africa Ltd (under administration) — petition to appoint a liquidator, mention 17 September 2026; a creditor's bankruptcy petition against Francis Mungai Ichahuria in Mombasa over a KSh 3.71m debt; and the Mukenia Farmers Co-operative liquidation extended six months.

NEMA invites public comment (30 days) on ESIA reports for two Nairobi developments: a residential project on General Mathenge Drive, Westlands, and a residential/commercial project on Ngong Road, Kilimani.

County notices
Nairobi City County Finance Act, 2026 published; Trans Nzoia County Assembly's FY2026/27 exchequer disbursement schedule totalling KSh 782.7m; Kericho intends to prepare a municipality local physical and land use development plan (comments closed 27 August); part development plans completed in Wajir, Isiolo and Samburu; a Nyamira County Assembly Service Board vice-chair swap; a new Level 2 dispensary gazetted in Kajiado.

The issue closes with disposal-of-uncollected-goods notices (several vehicle lots, a Daewoo prime mover and weighbridge) and roughly six pages of change-of-name notices.

19/08/2026

Kaguchia and Kaluma in hot soup with the LSK

Hon. John Kaguchia and Hon. Opondo Kaluma sit on opposite sides of the political divide. The former is now an ardent supporter of DCP leader Rigathi Gachagua; the latter belongs to the ODM faction backing President Ruto. Different camps, different rallies, different WhatsApp groups entirely.

Yet here they are, in the same soup.

Kaguchia's troubles came courtesy of the DCI over remarks made at a political rally — and he got the full package: an overnight standoff at the TV studio, a DCI es**rt, a night in the cells, and an appearance in the dock. Not as counsel. As the accused.

Kaluma, for his part, has been summoned by the NCIC over his own remarks, and responded by demanding the correct transcript first. Classic advocate energy — raise the technical objection before you even reach the building.

Different camps. Different authorities. Different alleged sins. And then the Law Society of Kenya — of which both are members — walked into the fray and did what no political negotiator has managed all year: united them. One statement, two names, one threat of disciplinary action.

Because the LSK's position is simple and inconvenient: an advocate must carry themselves with decorum at all times — not only in the courtroom. The wig doesn't come off at the rally. Political office does not suspend professional obligations. And the Society, in its own words, will neither shield an advocate because of political affiliation nor condemn one because of it.

So DCI on one side, NCIC on the other, and LSK holding the one card that actually frightens a lawyer — the Roll of Advocates.

The more the merrier. wapi pocorn 🍿

19/08/2026

BUYING LAND IN KENYA: ONE OF THE 1,001 WAYS TO DIE EARLY

In the Kenya Gazette of 14th August 2026, Optiven was named in a suit accusing it of fleecing customers. The allegations are yet to be tested in court — but it stung, because Optiven, alongside firms like Muigai Commercial Agencies and AMS Properties, had seemingly walked the straight and narrow in an industry where that is the exception, not the rule.

In Kenya, land doesn't just lose you money. It loses you years, marriages, health — and sometimes life itself.

FOUR WAYS KENYANS LOSE EVERYTHING

Forged titles and plots that exist only in a brochure. Double allocation — one plot, many "owners". Ancestral or matrimonial land sold without every family stakeholder's consent, with the eviction order arriving after you've built. And off-plan: stalled sites, insolvent developers, years of delay, or a finished unit nothing like the 3D.

THE ROLL OF DISHONOUR

Off-plan collapses

Suraya Property Group — projects stalled, hundreds stranded after paying millions for apartments never completed; banks moved to auction the land over defaulted loans.

Banda Homes — slick renders, huge deposits, delivery missed by years. Buyers protested publicly; many lost life savings.

Simple Homes — a "rent-to-own" pitch to the middle class. The homes never came.

Lesedi Developers — accused of selling non-existent plots and withholding titles after buyers finished paying.

Home Afrika / Migaa — the golf-city dream that ran into years of delay and financial strain.

Investment vehicles

Cytonn — CHYS and CPN, unregulated products sold on outsized-return promises, hit liquidity trouble and failed to repay principal or interest. Court-ordered liquidation followed.

Gakuyo Real Estate / Ekeza SACCO — billions in member savings channelled away, land resold that the scheme didn't fully control.

Urithi Housing Cooperative — dozens of projects stalled; lenders threatened to auction mother titles and members were asked to top up to save their own plots.

Land-buying companies

Embakasi Ranching — double allocation on an industrial scale, followed by endless litigation.

Kihiu Mwiri, Murang'a — the darkest chapter of all: a chain of director murders over the company's land, while shareholders waited decades for deeds.

Mbo-i-Kamiti, Kiambu — a once-mighty shareholder company hollowed out by debt and disputed allocations.

When even a "genuine" title wasn't enough

Syokimau. Mavoko. Waitiki Farm. Ruaraka. Taj Mall. Homes and buildings flattened, families evicted, titles people believed in reduced to paper. And across all of it, diaspora Kenyans sold plots by relatives and agents they trusted — discovering on arrival that nothing was ever bought.

BEFORE YOU PAY A SINGLE SHILLING

Do a fresh official search — through your own advocate, never the seller's. Get a certified surveyor to beacon the parcel. Walk it. Ask the neighbours who owns it. Demand the mother title and proof the subdivision is registered — not "in process".

Check for charges, caveats and cautions. An encumbered title can be auctioned from under you. Confirm spousal, family and Land Control Board consent in writing.

Off-plan: pay into project escrow, never a director's account. Demand approved plans, NCA registration, and penalties for delay.
Buy progress, not promises — stage payments against verified milestones. Search the courts for the developer's name. It costs nothing and can save you everything. If the price is far below market, it isn't a bargain. It's a warning.

The pattern is never one company. It's that directors collapse a scheme, walk away, and start another under a new name — while buyers grow old in court corridors. Until those people are personally pursued and made to pay, Kenyans will keep crying themselves to the grave over a piece of paper they thought was a title.

Been burnt, or know someone who has? Share below — the next buyer may be reading this.

18/08/2026

Kenya Gazette Highlights - 14th August 2026
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1. Public finance
Statement of Actual Revenues and Net Exchequer Issues as at 31 July 2026 published.

2. Energy — EPRA monthly adjustments - The Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority (EPRA) notified electricity consumers that electrical energy prices for meter readings taken in August 2026 would attract a Fuel Energy Cost Charge of 351 Kenya cents per kWh and a Foreign Exchange Fluctuation Adjustment of 117.77 cents per kWh.

3. Water tariffs — The Water Services Regulatory Board (Wasreb) approved reviews for 4 utilities namely Kisii Water and Sanitation PLC (KWASCO), Eldoret Water and Sanitation Company (ELDOWAS), Murugi Mugumango Water Society and Narok Water and Sewerage Services Company (NARWASSCO)

4. Land acquisition - National Land Commission intends to acquire parcels for the Turbo–Shikhendu Road upgrade and Nairobi–Naivasha SGR Phase 2A, Kajiado County.

5. Business, corporate and courts
Directline Assurance Company Limited faces two separate liquidation petitions at the High Court at Garsen by minor claimants suing through next friends. Both are directed for mention on 1 October 2026.

Consumer class action against Optiven Limited— Hon. Justice Francis Nyungu Kyambia granted leave on 4 August 2026 in HC Civil Suit No. E033 of 2026 (Kiambu) for Peter Mulati Nabiswa to sue representatively under Order 1 Rule 8 and s.4 of the Consumer Protection Act. The class covers persons who, in the preceding six years, paid deposits/reservation fees for Optiven land parcels, received an unsigned draft Agreement for Sale, and never executed it.

Timac Agro East Africa Limited — creditors' voluntary liquidation; Tejas Joy Bhatt and Saheel Mohamed shakeel appointed joint liquidators by special resolution of 22 July 2026.

Bankruptcy petition — Martha Khayanga Tulienge, a debtor's own petition .

Companies Act strike-offs — a very large intended-dissolution roll under s.897(3), covering hundreds of companies including an extensive run of "Afri-" prefixed entities. Three months to show cause.

Co-operatives — liquidation of Mandera Handicraft CS Ltd extended a further six months, John Ndungi reappointed liquidator

Mental Health Act — Lucy Wanjiku Ngugi appointed manager and legal guardian of the estate of Lucy Wanjiku Mukami

6. Trade and customs
• Overstayed goods auctions — Kenya Revenue Authority lists uncleared cargo at Mombasa CFS Cluster A1 and ICD Nairobi. Thirty days to clear, then online public auction via ibid.kra.go.ke on 28 Sept – 2 Oct 2026, with viewing 24–25 September.
• Sotik SEZ Ltd, Bomet County — appointed a customs area

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7. Counties
• Mombasa — road naming 5 roads renamed in honour of the late Hon. Ramadhan Seif Kajembe, the late Hon. Masoud Mwahima, Maj. Gen. (Rtd) Aboud Abdalla Rafrouf, the late Hon. Ahmed Shahame Mwidani, and the late Hasmukh Patel (founder, Mombasa Cement).

• Mombasa — heavy vehicle restriction : vehicles above 10 tonnes barred from Nyali Bridge, Fidel Odinga Road, Links Road, New Malindi Road, Zakhem Road, Dr. Felix Road, Mt. Kenya Road and Ras Kisauni Road during peak hours (6.00–9.30 a.m. and 3.30–8.00 p.m.), 14 August to 13 November 2026.

• Nairobi Dr. Isaac Kalua appointed Chairperson of Green Nairobi Limited with six directors; Agnes Mumbi Ngaru re-appointed to the Nairobi City Water and Sewerage Company board.
• Turkana : mass classification of public health facilities by KEPH level — several hundred facilities gazetted, effective on publication.
• Kwale (GN 13195): hospital boards constituted for Msambweni County Referral, Kwale, Kinango, Samburu and Lungalunga sub-county hospitals.
• Kakamega (GN 13194): special County Assembly sitting on 18 August 2026 to consider municipality board nominees and a motion on alleged non-payment of salaries by Papaton Security Services Ltd.
• Nandi (GN 13196): Henry Kipkorir Tarus appointed acting Clerk (as Deputy Clerk–Administration) from 14 August 2026.
• Physical planning: Murang'a (Kathangi Estate zoning plan complete), Mombasa (six informal settlement regularisations proposed — Vikobani, Miritini 1134, Cheleng'a, Bombo-Maziwani, Owino Uhuru; plus Majengo replanning complete), Isiolo (plot regularisations), and Kisumu County Physical and Land Use Development Plan 2026–2036, preparation to commence 1 September 2026, comments by 31 August.

8. Political parties (Registrar of Political Parties)
• Provisional registration applied for: Pragmatic Party of Kenya (Pragmatic) — gold, black, green and white; symbol a calculator; slogan "Suluhisho amilifu" (GN 13191).

• Farmers Party changing symbol (maize stalk → maize stalk with three ripe combs), slogan ("A touch of stomach" → "Sauti ya Wakulima") and colours (GN 13185).

• Kenya Reform Party relocating its head office within Rosslyn Riviera House (GN 13189).

• The New Democrats amending its party constitution (GN 13190); further notices cover officials changes at other parties.

• Jacob Ngwele Muvengei appointed a Member of the Political Parties Disputes Tribunal for a non-renewable six-year term from 6 July 2026, by the Judicial Service Commission (GN 13015).

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9. Health, environment and regulatory
• Public participation — East Africa Centre of Excellence in Urology and Nephrology Order, 2026 (GN 13016): the Health CS gazetted a Regulatory Impact Statement for a draft Order to establish the Centre under s.3(1) of the State Corporations Act, providing specialised and tertiary diagnostic urological and nephrological services to Kenya and the wider EAC. Note: memoranda were due within 14 days of publication and the stakeholder meeting was scheduled for 6 August 2026 — both dates precede this 14 August gazette.

• NEMA ESIA reports open for comment (GN 13217–13222): Eldoret IHS Green Affordable Housing (270 units in three blocks, Elgon View, Uasin Gishu — proponent International Housing Solutions-Kenya); a residential development on Eldoret Municipality Block 9/1932 and 9/1933 along Elgeyo Road (Tsavo Pioneer Eldoret Ltd); and residential apartments on Nairobi/Block 21/255 off Riverside Drive, Dagoretti North.

• Physiotherapy Council of Kenya (GN 13206): a large first tranche of registered and licensed physiotherapists gazetted under s.22(3a), pp. 4012–4026.

• Communications Authority (GN 13183, 13184): licence applications including Onanawaves TV Ltd (Ushirika na Nuru TV), Eldoret — commercial free-to-air television; 30 days to object.

• Distributive and Allied Trades Association (GN 13205): notice of change of name / constitutional amendment; 21 days to object.

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10. Legislative Supplements and Acts

LN Instrument
79 Energy (Electricity Market, Bulk Supply and Open Access) Regulations, 2026
80 Microfinance Act — Exemption
81 Banking (Fees) Regulations, 2026
82–84 Competition Act — Exclusions
85 Public Benefits Organization Act — Extension of Transition Period
86 Sugar (Imports and Exports) (Amendment) Regulations, 2026
87 Export Processing Zones Act — Revocation of Declaration of Export Processing Zone
88 Sugar (General) (Amendment) Regulations, 2026

Supplements 118–119 — Acts, 2026:

• The Income Tax (Amendment) Act, 2026
• The Special Economic Zones (Amendment) Act, 2026

These are the most substantive law changes flagged by the issue and warrant separate review — the electricity open-access regulations, the banking fee rules, the PBO transition extension and the two Acts in particular.

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11. Routine and bulk content
• Land Registration Act (pp. 3935–3955): approximately 150 notices for provisional certificates, new certificates of lease and replacement titles — the largest routine block. Includes several parcels held by Brisk International Limited in Athi River.

• Disposal of Uncollected Goods (pp. 4042–4043): auctioneers' notices covering impounded vehicles and motorcycles, including a large lot at Taru Police Station (Windsor House Auctioneers) and another by Makys Auctioneers.

• Change of Name (pp. 4043–4047): 28 notices.
• Corrigenda (p. 3934): eight corrections to earlier notices, mostly succession cause details.

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18/08/2026

One of the few trusted real estate company - Optiven Limited now faces a landmark challenge in Kiambu High Court Civil Suit No. E033 of 2026, Peter Mulati Nabiswa vs Optiven
Limited, whereby the Plaintiff has been granted leave to conduct the suit as a representative action on behalf of all persons who, at any time within 6 years preceding the institution of the suit
(a) paid a deposit, reservation fee or any other sum to Optiven
toward the purchase of a land parcel in any of its real estate projects;
(b) received from Optiven an unsigned draft Agreement
for Sale, transmitted for review and comment in advance of
ex*****on;
(c) they did not execute (sign and have attested) the said
Agreement for Sale; and
(d) they subsequently had a deduction imposed upon, or a refund
withheld from, their deposit payments by Optiven purportedly on the basis of a clause or clauses contained in such unsigned draft Agreement.

18/08/2026

Via Gazette Notice No. 13015, the Judicial Service Commission Kenya, chaired by Chief Justice Martha K. Koome, has appointed Jacob Ngwele Muvengei a Member of the Political Parties Disputes Tribunal (PPDT) — a non-renewable six-year term, with effect from 6th July 2026.

Mr. Ngwele began his public career at the Parliament of Kenya where he served as Principal Legal Counsel.

With the advent of devolution, he moved to the Nairobi City County Assembly and became its Clerk. He served through a tumultuous period in which running battles between the MCAs and the then Speaker, Beatrice Elachi, were the order of the day. He did not escape the crossfire: his own removal followed, along with a corruption-related prosecution from which the courts ultimately cleared him.

He then returned to practice at JN & P Law Advocates LLP (formerly Ngwele & Co. Advocates LLP), and has also served as an advisor to Isiolo Governor Abdi Guyo.

He is a leading authority on parliamentary practice and procedure, devolution and legislative drafting in Kenya.

Parliament taught him the rules. City Hall taught him the ground. Practice taught him how to marry the two.

That combination is exactly what the Tribunal now needs. The PPDT is where the next general election begins in earnest — party primaries, nomination lists, expulsions, coalition fallouts — long before a single ballot is cast.

We wish him well, and look forward to skillful, fearless handling of political parties disputes.

Congratulations, Counsel.

14/08/2026

Senator Edwin Sifuna is the Chief Guest tonight, Friday 14th August 2026, at the Gala Dinner of the LSK Annual Conference — the evening that effectively closes the conference, save for Saturday's golf and CSR activities.

He is no stranger to the Society, having served on the LSK Council in the 2016–2018 term under the presidency of Isaac Okero.

And while the gala is strictly a lawyers' night — nobody would bet that a political headline from him or two will not be in the offing

13/08/2026

On a without prejudice, if your lawyer is not in the office, is not picking calls, and the phone is going "mteja," kindly exercise patience. He is busy increasing his maarifa on your behalf at the Law Society of Kenya Annual Conference in Diani, Kwale County — not Mombasa.

By day: plenaries, panels, CPD points, and robust debate on the very issues that will one day save your case.

By evening: he is debriefing. Decompressing. Processing the trauma of carrying other people's problems as his own — at a fee — from a certain Manyatta along the beach. Sea breeze is also a recognised form of continuous professional development.

All urgent matters are hereby adjourned to a date to be given by the registry (read: next week).

And if your lawyer is not in Diani… kindly go and sit down quietly and ask yourself a few questions. Res ipsa loquitur — the thing speaks for itself. 🤐

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