Two Ministry of Lands employees were among eight people arrested in a multi-agency operation led by the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) that brought down a land fraud syndicate on Thursday, April 3.
In a statement, DCI reported that one of them was an assistant security officer at the Ministry of Lands at Survey of Kenya, while another one was a casual labourer at Ardhi House.
Two other significant arrests were those of an employee at the Government Press, working as a printer II, and another individual, a land broker.
According to the report, the DCI launched investigations into the syndicate following intelligence received from members of the public.