Bondo Lands Registrar Ogise Atuti is facing arrest and possible prosecution for ignoring a litany of court orders that require him to produce documents used to generate alleged fake title deeds in the region to the area DCIO.

The National Council on the Administration of Justice (NCAJ) chairman, Justice Alfred Mabeya, has instructed the Bondo court to issue summons for Ogise to appear next week, failure to which he will be arrested for obstructing justice.

Justice Mabeya, who visited Bondo Law Courts, spoke during a Court Users Committee meeting. He was responding to complaints from the DCIO’s office regarding Mr. Ogise, who has failed to comply with six court orders, thus frustrating efforts to investigate fraudulent land acquisition cases in the region.

Mabeya observed that the actions by the Lands Registrar amount to blocking justice to the public, which is in itself an illegality.

He further directed all courts in Siaya County—namely Ukwala, Siaya, Bondo, and Madiany—to expedite the determination of land cases, especially those dealing with successions.

He noted that such cases are often exploited by unscrupulous surveyors working in cahoots with rogue lands officers to swindle the public.

According to records at the DCIO’s office, a total of six court orders were issued to Ogise between April and October 2025, asking him to provide certified documents used to generate a number of questionable title deeds.

The Lands Registrar has remained unresponsive.

Area DCIO Reuben Onchoka is currently handling land case number E080/2025, involving a family in Central Sakwa embroiled in a land dispute after two new titles, 4939 and 4940, were generated on their land without their consent by the Lands Registrar.

In a letter dated October 29, 2025, and seen by the Kenya News Agency, the area DCIO had requested Bondo court prosecutors to apply for contempt of court against Mr. Ogise.

However, the action has not been implemented a month later.

When contacted for comment via phone, Ogise failed to explain why he has not obeyed the court orders.

He merely insinuated that he was not in a position to respond on cases which started long before he was posted to Bondo as Lands Registrar.

Reports at the Bondo Law Court indicate that a significant number of criminal cases handled by the court in the region have their genesis in unresolved or poorly resolved land disputes.