White collar malpractices in cadastral surveying and their effects on secure land tenure and sustainable development
Mwanza, Alick R.
Land Delivery involves the charting of land for purposes of obtaining security to that land so as to ensure that the development thereon is protected within particular limits as guided by law. This ensures control over the developments on land to secure a sustainable environment in which the future generations are assured of an unspoilt Earth. This then calls for a land delivery system that uses properly charted land records that are free of conflict. In short survey records that are realised after a well executed procedure by government using existing statutes. This has not been the case in some cases and therefore this paper looks at the flaws in the system and their effects on secure tenure and sustainable development. It also recommends particular remedies to the identified flaws. It does not mention names of culprits or properties involved in the white-collar malpractices that have crept into the system. This is to protect their integrity as well as to avoid legal implications, as most of them are currently subjects of legal suits in courts of law. This paper therefore endeavours to bring to the fore white collar malpractices that have recently crept into the land delivery process which if left unchecked would have untold effects on our much cherished environment as has been seen in the mushrooming unplanned settlements where the developers have no security of tenure at all and their activities on land are not controlled in any way. In conclusion this paper recommends overhauling of the Land Survey Act as well as reorganising the whole cadastral survey approval system as a way of improving the cadastral survey part of the land delivery system.
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