the would-be English settlers camped outside the Land Office in Nairobi until such time as their own requests to buy land should be processed and adjudicated by an unprepared bureaucracy overloaded with work. Some of them had been waiting over a year, fretting impatiently while ill-equipped Government officials struggled to complete the survey and documentation without which no land could be handed over. Others had already given up hope and had gone home when their money petered out.
The Lands office has been at it for more than a century
