Nairobi governor Johnson Sakaja has issued clarification regarding the reported inflation of land rates that is to be effected beginning January next year.
It had earlier been indicated in a report that the city-county administration would review the rates in line with the current value of the properties sitting on city land.
As supposedly stipulated by the county, the new rates would be based on 0.115% of the current value of unused land.
The January 2023 rates would affect residential, commercial, and agricultural plots within the city.
However, making clarifications, the governor said the rates would not be inflated as much, as had been reported.
He stated that the slight upward review of the rates for property owners would be to match the current value of the assets encased within the county.
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Sakaja said the county government was also adopting a new directory of the properties within the city since the last valuation decades ago.
"No rates are doubling. We are simply adopting the new valuation roll and rates are at 0.115% of the unimproved site value. The last valuation was in 1980. This means there is only a slight increase from what residents have been paying," he said.
