Kairuki urges Mkurabita to enhance village land registries
14th February 2016
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Kairuki told the press at Mkurabita offices in Dar es Salaam on Friday that until now the land registries were only conducted in 17 villages in four district councils, while 90 per cent had no good deal of land registries, leading to land conflicts among farmers.
“I called on the government to keep good budget for the land to help citizens to buy the land through copyright,” she said.
The Mkurabita Programme Coordinator, Seraphia Mgembe said the programme was yet to manage creation of potentials for formalizing land villages in 49 district councils in Tanzania Mainland and four districts in Zanzibar.
"We advise Tanzanians to formalize their properties. Everybody is obliged to do good for his/her country for sustained benefits,” she said, adding that Mkurabita had already prepared more than 17,000 land registries in rural areas and surveyed over 51,000 farms, and that over 5,000 residential licenses for unplanned urban areas were currently being prepared, as about 1,000 residential licenses have already been issued.
Meanwhile, Mgembe commended Mkurabita’s efforts in ensuring that development activities reached all the people, attributing the success story to a mastermind of the programme whose creativity earned an award in an international contest recently.
Other nations were urged to take a leaf from Mkurabita’s chapter by going further than just targeting government activities, but encouraging the public into taking part in policy making, its implementation and adopting a culture of undertaking pre-emptive measures for prevention than cure.
SOURCE: GUARDIAN ON SUNDAY
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