The Village Land Act R.E. 2002

any person authorised under this Act to enter and inspect any land in the lawful exercise ofpower in that behalf commits an offence and upon conviction is liable, to a fine not exceedingone hundred thousand shillings or to a term of imprisonment not exceeding one year or to boththe fine and imprisonment.(6) Any person who, under this Act, whether generally or for a specific function, in thecourse of any official function or otherwise, unlawfully or with force enters on the land of anyperson or while on land, wilfully commits any damage to the land or anything on the land,whether naturally on the land, or stock owned by any person using the land or crops planted orbuildings erected on the land commits an offence and upon conviction is liable to a fine notexceeding fifty thousand shillings or to imprisonment not exceeding three months or to boththe fine and imprisonment.(7) Where a court has convicted any person of an offence under this section and thecommission of that offence enabled that person to obtain or retain or regain any interest inland which he would otherwise not have been able to obtain, retain or regain, the court may inaddition to any punishment provided for by this section imposed on that person, make anyorder in relation to that interest in land so obtained, retained or regained by that person asappears to the court necessary to ensure that that person does not profit by the offence ofwhich he has been convicted.64. Corrupt transactions(1) Nothing in this Act shall be taken or construed to validate, affirm, authenticate or giveany legal effect to any grant of a customary certificate of occupancy, or any disposition, or anycontract for any of transaction which was obtained or induced by any corrupt action, on thepart of any government or public or local government official and such a transaction is herebydeclared to be and to have been from its inception an illegal transaction, void and havingabsolutely no legal effect.(2) For purposes of this section, a transaction shall be taken to be affected or tainted bycorruption when either–(a)(b)(c)any party involved directly or indirectly in the transaction in respect of which it isalleged that an action was corrupt is convicted of corruption and all final appealsarising from that conviction have been concluded; orany public servant or other public official is interdicted, or is retired in the publicinterest, from his post on the grounds that he has been engaged in corrupt actionsand that these actions involved that transaction; oran investigatory body reports that it is satisfied or that transaction was procured bycorrupt practices.(3) Any person occupying land which he obtained as a consequence of participating in any