In an interview with The Herald, Minister Ziyambi said : “This will also deal with the issue of one
person owning more than one farm and through an audit and title survey will
also help to unveil some idle land.
“People should be happy that it will now be easy to find
where there is a vacant piece of land. This is a new system on land allocation
with no window for corrupt allocations.
Those who had multiple farms are set to lose the other ones.
“The President proclaimed a new land tenure policy which is
a game changer as it now puts value on the land owned by an indigenous person
who benefited from the land. Before this, the land we had was just a dead asset
as no value could be affixed to it since the person who was using the land had
no exclusive rights to the land and could not approach banks to get financial
assistance for his operations, which this policy is correcting.”
“We had instances where officials from the Agriculture
Ministry would withdraw offer letters of some of the land owners and corruptly
allocate the land to others in the guise of land replanning. This policy will put to end corrupt
tendencies which were being done by corrupt land officers and through some
Ministry offices.”
“This move aims to stamp further that land reform is
irreversible. But let me also hasten to say that surveying the land will
address challenges that were arising from the system we were using before. Land
officers and some officials in the offices of Ministers of State were making a
killing distributing land, even that of war veterans.”
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