Nairobi, March 8 -- A commission of inquiry into rampant grabbing of public land exposed how powerful individuals minted billions of shillings through shady deals ,including forcing State corporations to purchase stolen land at inflated prices.

Recommendations to repossess all grabbed public land, seize proceeds of ill-gotten wealth and to prosecute rogue public officials as well as other players implicated in the crime have never been implemented fully since the report was submitted in 2004 to then President Kibaki.

Successive governments have failed to implement the drastic recommendations by the Commission of Inquiry into the Illegal Allocation of Public Land contained in the Ndung'u report, named after the chairperson of the team la...