Members of the National Commission for Land and other Assets-CNTB have met this 26 March, local residents of Rumonge Province to identify current land-related issues. No new land cases will be received from 2021.
Litigants will not be able to file their land-related complaints to the courts after 2021
Félicien Nduwuburundi, CNTB chairman has said the commission will no longer receive any new case related to land conflicts from 2021. He refers to the recent presidential decree signed in March 2019.
He says all litigants should file their cases to the National Commission before the set deadline. “Those who will recover their properties will immediately be given the title deed,” he said, adding that it will be the first time CNTB delivers such a document.
Mr. Nduwuburundi also says about 23,000 cases related to land conflicts are not yet treated throughout the country. Rumonge and Makamba are the first provinces where land related issues are rife. “Rumonge Province has 8000 pending files while Makamba province has 7000”, he reveals.
On 26 March, 50 members of the National Commission for Land and other Assets carried out a field visit in the two provinces to listen to the litigants and help find solutions to their conflicts. However, local residents in Rumonge Province complained about the slowness observed in the progress of land cases. “We have filed complaints to the commission since 2012 but have not so far received any feedback,” says an inhabitant of Rumonge Province.
He also says disabled returnees find it very difficult to reach the commission’s offices. “It would be better if they met us in the localities where we live so we could submit our land-based claims’, he says.
For this issue, CNTB chairman has promised to deploy the commission agents to facilitate those disabled people.
Another issue raised by people from Rumonge Province is about the added value of that document which will be issued by CNTB in comparison with the existing documents presented by the resident who stayed in the country. “CNTB doesn’t consider our documents while we were given them by the then government,” says one of them, suggesting the National Commission to fairly treat cases of returnees and those who stayed in the country.
The National Commission on land and other Assets was established in 2006 and its key objective is to identify all land and other property related disputes between the victims, third party and/or public or private services.
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