{"id":11134,"date":"2024-01-07T12:58:28","date_gmt":"2024-01-07T12:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugandaupdatenews.com\/?p=11134"},"modified":"2024-01-07T12:58:34","modified_gmt":"2024-01-07T12:58:34","slug":"government-starts-issuing-free-certificates-of-customary-ownership-in-acholi-sub-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/government-starts-issuing-free-certificates-of-customary-ownership-in-acholi-sub-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Government Starts Issuing Free Certificates Of Customary Ownership In Acholi-Sub Region"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Our Reporters<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Government has commenced the exercise of giving out free Certificates of Customary Ownership (CCOs) to residents in Acholi sub-region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exercise, led by Lands Minister Judith Nabakooba, kicked off on January 4 in Agago District at a ceremony held at Kalongo grounds in Kalongo Town Council but will spread to other districts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Nabakooba said the Lands Ministry has so far processed 10,017 customary titles for 6282 persons in Paimol and Wol Sub-Counties . The beneficiaries out for 57 percent male and  43 percent women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nakabooka explained that the on-going documentation and titling of family land, individual land, and communal land association is done to create peace in the region, enable families and communities to engage in producing surplus food for sale, knowing that no one will destroy their crops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMore customary land certificates are to be processed with the ministry targeting the registration of 275,000 customary land owners throughout the county before 2026,\u201d the minister said at the event in Agago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exercise if being  implemented by the government of Uganda under the Development Initiative for Northern Uganda (DINU) Land component with support from the European Union and United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DINU is a development initiative implemented in northern Uganda to consolidate stability, eradicate poverty and create foundations for socio-economic development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nabakooba revealed that the exercise started as a pilot in three districts of  Agago, Pakwach, and Maracha.  Althoiugh the pilot project has ended , Nabakooba said  government is going to continue registering clans and their land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI thank the area leaders for mobilizing communities to process customary certificates as a means of resolving the many land conflicts,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The minister also opened up the newly constructed land registries for greater Paimol and Wol and said she is fulfilling the Land Act which calls for extension of Land registries at the lower local government levels to male it easier for land right holders and owners to walk to the office of the recorder to have their interests made known and recorded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Chief Justice Alfonse Owiny-Dollo  who  graced the occasion welcomed the land Ministry \u2018s initiatives and said land registration would stop land grabbing and land disputes in the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is an opportunity to save people from paying licenses on their own land,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He asked the lands minister to engage district leaders to speak to the locals about development and partnering with investors such as Terra Agri Solutions Limited in the Parish to Market project, in which the investor wanted to rent registered customary land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMost of these people have no knowledge about development. They therefore need to be sensitised to realise the importance of investors in the development of their communities,\u201d Owiny-Dollo said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr Leonard Ojok, the Agago ,LCV Chairperson, said they had received reports about unknown people who had forged documents to give land to investors and asked the government to make a follow up and ensure land owners are protected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe issue is causing a lot of anger and insecurity in the area. Locals think their land is going to be taken without their notice. The people posing to be members of our area are not known,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr George Otto, a resident of Aringa East village, who heads the Kaluke Katugu family that received their certificate, said they started processing their family land documents in 2020 but the process was delayed by COVID-19. He expressed gratitude for being one of the first beneficiaries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI am happy that as a family, we can now do anything productive on our land since we have gained full ownership,\u201d Mr Otto said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He thanked the government for the opportunity to enable the less privileged to gain full ownership of their land at subsidized rates, noting the whole process cost them only Shs15,000<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Editor:msserwanga@gmail.com<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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