Sort the mess in land office
Reference is made to a special report on land in which some of the several malpractices in the Land Office were exposed, and in which the acting minister of State for Lands is reported to have confirmed the rampant disappearance of certificates of title from the registry.
I wish also to add to her statement: the rampant unauthorised issuance of substitute certificates of title to facilitate registration of fraudulent land transaction while the genuine registry copies of the certificates of title relating to the same pieces of land were either deliberately destroyed or kept aside to facilitate the fraud.
I do not agree that an internal committee that the Ministry of Lands intends to set up is the right answer to the problem. Rather, due to the magnitude of the matter, I propose that an independent committee of inquiry be set up to probe the conduct of individual officers starting from the top.
The public should then be invited to give either oral evidence or submit written memoranda to the committee. This is because the rot of the fish starts from the head and not the tail.
Kulumba-Kiingi, Kulumba-Kiingi & Co Advocates, Kampala.
Mitayo Potosi
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