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FINAL THE AFRICAN LAND WILL BE RESOLVED
It is imperative that we deal with landlessness and land wars. This comes about because land has been transformed into an item of speculation and profit. Members of our communities have to pay fortunes to acquire it. Some in other places did not have any idea of how to put it into use. For majority, mostly the African person, it is too expensive buy.
This is the same land that God gave us to use, as a common heritage.
The Question is: Why must it be an item of commerce and profit? Where do temptations come from? Who is tempted and what causes them? Is the land acquired put to productive use and to whose standards of good? Should foreigners own land in Africa (ownership)? And who are the custodians of the African land?
I believe that, if we can think as Africans, and not puppets of travelers, the answers to all these questions will come easily.
1. The land encompassed by the indigenous people of Africa or equivalent African tribes.
2. For custody and administrative responsibility and purposes only, the African land shall be vested in the executive in partnership with tribal chiefs. The chief who in his capacity is the representative to safeguard custody of such tribal African land, on behalf of the native people.
3. This custody represents entrusted safe keeping of this asset for the indigenous people of Africa as their sovereign common asset for common use, as opposed to private ownership and exploitation.
4. All African citizens should have unrestricted access to land, whether in the urban areas of in the countryside. After all it's their land. This should be their unalienable right as native citizens of the continent.
5. Access and supervision to the land in the urban areas shall be the responsibility of the local authorities, whose responsibility will be to vet the need and use of such land; while that in the rural areas shall be vested in the traditional rulers for it's management for development.
6. Lands shall not be merchandise or perceived as a commodity for sale, but will be available for utilization and exploitation;
7. The African (tribal) territory shall never be the subject of international commercialization. This should preclude or exclude land speculation by both local and foreign agents. No position of the African territory should be set aside for sell; this is predicated upon the principle of continuity, sustainability and preservation of it for prosperity;
8. There shall be clear demarcation, by zones or tribes of all land in Africa in categories as will be delineated on the basis of social, cultural and economic utilization desirability within the urban and rural areas. This demarcation shall be achieved through a comprehensive land assessment survey, based on the utility endowment. Such comprehensive survey to result into ascertaining economic advantage and comparative utility value;
9. African Citizens shall reserve free access to land upon clear demonstration of developmental need by the production of clear project proposal(domestic, commercial or industrial). This principle to apply both in the urban as well as the rural areas.
10. Land shall not be sold to any citizen by any authority, including traditional rulers for whatever purpose or use. And no individual, indigenous or foreign, can sell land, because their will be none on the market. This is both in the urban and rural areas. But land for commercial or business enterprise shall attract a fee to be determined by the authorities in each area.
11. No land can be sold for home ownership or household purposes. The guarding principle here is that land already belongs to the Citizens. The only fee payable shall be payment for administrative as well as service provision purposes.
12. No portion of land shall be accessed by anyone which does not fall within the jurisdiction authority or the established local master plan.
13. Because of the joint ownership of land by the people of Africa (tribes), access to land under a title deed shall fall away. This is to be replaced by a user document. An individual can not claim ownership of property which is already jointly owned by the rest of the citizens for joint usage. This shall a s , a land user permit , will apply to both local and foreign land users. For foreigner be a land user permit , with a land fee, shall be for a renewable period of 25years. Any foreigner on a land user permit shall surrender such land upon cessation of business.
14. That the 99-year land title deed to be scrapped and replaced by the 25yrs lease, in order to arrest extravagance, land abuse, misuse and a check on absentee land lords.
The overriding obligation in the proposed new African land management policy shall be to prescribe land allocation against utility demand in order to ensure and establish the specific and intended use of such land. This condition should be the only paramount consideration to guide it's alienation.
Today individuals have custody of expansive tracts of land with no immediate utility or project idea. While others hold land for resale at exorbitant and opportunistic prices. This is tantamount to selling land to the owner. Surely the principle of willing buyer, willing seller cannot work. How can one buy what is already his? Unless someone can tell me that Africans do not own African land.
15. No foreigner shall own any part of African land. They have no earthly reason to do so. The global village does not mean that Africans have to give up their ownership to their God given land to allow any tom, bush, and brown to help themselves to it. Yes, non Africans are free to access and use it at a 25yrs lease. By this formula everybody gets to benefit with adequate security of tenure. Conditions for land utilization should be equal to all, local or foreigner. But ownership if for Africans and not at all foreigners.
16. Under no circumstances should the African governments and administrations allow itself or representatives to engage foreigners (non Africans) to be involved in land discussions. African land can never be on their agenda. It is solely a matter for themselves. It foreign assistance is to be sought this will be acknowledged but resigned upon our request.
17. Land subtended by traditional rulers to receive the same treatment, except that negotiations to access land there shall be conducted directly with the traditional rulers. Any business enterprise shall attract both a user fee and royalty to the chiefdom. This will awaken the slumbering countryside into a vibrant economic land of opportunity.
18. Land enter into the equation of production to achieve this, all applicants for land must show cause as to why they need that land. This shall be demonstrated by mandatory submission or production of development plans. Every piece of land acquired must have a production activity on it. If you are interested in national development you have to start thinking development. African land has been idle for too long.
African people cannot go to Europe, Asia or the Americas and start speculating on land. Yes you will be allowed to own property, which you can sell upon your departure and recover you cannot own land. Why should we deny our grandchildren the opportunity to land usage and preserve it for them?
This proposal aims at making Africans understand their responsibility to land. They must understand that it is their only inheritance. If we can understand this, we alone can decide how we shall use and preserve it. What about our prosperity? Don't they matter to us anymore? All we need to agree that corruption and unrealistic land policies must be killed. This can be dealt with by elimination of land speculation.
We must remove the cost of land by making it easily accessible to anyone, local or foreign. The only cost is for one to demonstrate why they need it, present a plan document and pay fees.
The principle of utility value of land needs to be embraced. In order for this continent (communities)to grow economically and socially, land must be transformed into a production tool. This is not the case at the moment. In china and India there is no idle land. How do they feed all those billions of people if it were not for land? Africans have become lazy and lavish on handouts, which is also supported by the governments.
The policy and the government and leaders should be at the fore front of its end.
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