South Sudan draft land policy under consideration
February 19, 2011 (JUBA) – The chairperson of the Southern Sudan Land Commission Robert Ladu Luki on Friday handed over the land draft policy to the government of South Sudan’s ministry of legal affairs for review.
Ladu told Sudan Tribune from Juba on Friday that the land policy was designed in regards to the new policy frame work and new guidelines that was developed with the African Union.
However, before the signing of the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement, all land belonged to the government. But after the peace accord, which ended over two decades of North-South conflict, the southern government has looked to transfer land rights to the community.
Ladu explained that, the Southern Sudan Land Commission has drawn-up the policy after a series of consultations with relevant land experts, like the chiefs, local authorities, traditional authorities and civil society groups and representatives from the ten states of South Sudan.
“We in the commission have got various discussions by all the traditional leaders starting from the county level upon the state level to interact about the land policy daft so that it should not be one sided”, he said.
He said that, he has handed to the draft to the ministry of legal affairs on Friday so that it can be passed to the Southern Sudan Legislative Assembly for consideration.
Ladu told Sudan Tribune that land issues in South Sudan have turned to crisis. Land grabs by some communities and individuals have led to violence, instability and loss of life in some areas, the land chief said.
In the same meeting, the chairperson of the committee for natural resource in the Southern Sudan Legislative Assembly (SSLA), Pascal Landid, added that the draft land policy will be amended with the current land policy act review.
He said the land policy act had been passed without any policy in place, hence “by this current drafted land policy it will perceptibly yield a fruit”.
The committee chairperson stressed that the draft land policy will be officially reviewed by the government of southern Sudan’s ministry of legal affairs without fear or favoritism.
Landid said the policy was drafted with the interest of people from all the ten states in mind. He said, he hopes that it will be passed by the regional assembly to become law so that there will be no more violations of land act.
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South Sudan draft land policy under consideration
The decision has been made; South Sudan city is going somewhere else in order to give the people of Juba the freedom to own their land from land grabbers.
The people of Juba are welcome to the new city to own any land they find for themselves.
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South Sudan draft land policy under consideration
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South Sudan land policy is corrupted, Under my leadership all the land of south Sudan will be belong to State nobody will own land more then others. State will build houses for people giving lands to farmers and use the land for development nobody will own more than one plot and pay more tax for any extra houses and lands. Every family will own house apartment or land. Many corrupted officials stole our fun and buy plots every were in south. Every southern Sudanese have all right to own plot or get government apartment which when I will become president I will build millions of it in every state.
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South Sudan draft land policy under consideration
drafting a Land policy is a good start. In any democratic society, land belongs to government and government uses land to generate money, to build the infrastructures, pay for education and health care etc. Of course, government oficials are selected from communities. Thus, you cannot separate government from communities. So, I think, there is no misunderstanding in that. In systems of governance, where you have three layers of government, like ours. You need to divide a land between these three layers, for example, between county, state and central government, accordingly. In a democratic societies nobody own a piece of land without government permission, and even you have bought it, government still has a right to disown it from you, when it wanted. The important thing now is to have a systeem we can trust. And I think we have a chance to that. So, we need to work togather very hard for a transparant democratic systeem without or with less corruption,and at the same time we have to try to trust ourselves and our system as well. This is the way to go, and then, the issue of land will automatically colddown.