Hai Kenisa Residents Raise Concerns On Church Land Policy
The Episcopal Church Of Sudan (ECS) Diocese of Maridi Land Authority issued a land order to the communities living around the area of the church not to lay bricks on the land. 16 March 2013 Joseph Nashion YAMBIO, 15 March 2013 [Gurtong] – Joseph Jeremiah, the Diocesan Land Secretary said that laying of bricks where people live creates waterways and it becomes breeding places for mosquitoes that increases the risk of Malaria cases. “We need the land to be clean and flat for future development and to easy the movement of people, and citizen should lay bricks from the soil of heaps of potatoes but not dig deep holes,” he said. Beneth Aramaa, a resident at Hai Kanisha said this policy has a great impact because every person has different standard of living. He further said that to lay bricks, you need to dig potato heaps to lay bricks, there is no enough land for one to dig heaps of potatoes to lay around 1,000 to 2,000 bricks on the land given. However South Sudan’s cabinet has adopted a long awaited land policy which will address issues pertaining to land acquisition and its management in the new nation. The policy was presented by the chairperson of the South Sudan Land Commission, Robert Lado, at a Council of Ministers meeting, chaired by Vice-President Dr Riek Machar. The new policy will address post-war conflict over land rights, informal settlements in cities and towns, as well as conflicts over access to land with pasture and water. The policy has divided land into three categories: public, private and community-owned lands. Posted in: Home, Governance -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "South Sudan Info - The Kob" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
