National Land Commission (NLC) · LEAD
RUTO, YOU CAN HAVE YOUR SKUNK: Parliament Rubber-Stamps The Least Qualified NLC Chair In Kenya’s Constitutional History, and Six Nominees To Match
When Dr Abdillahi Saggaf Alawy admitted before a parliamentary vetting committee that he was ‘a bit shaky’, he was not describing nerves. He was describing the quality of Kenya’s new National Land Commission — a constitutional body that will govern the most politically explosive resource in the republic: land. Parliament heard the alarm bells, noted them in the official record, and voted yes anyway.
