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Over one million plots of land are temporarily registered with the government
The National Land Agency announced that all persons who own unregistered land must register it by December 31, 2020, or it will be temporarily registered with the state.
Director of the Lands Department, Marie Grace Nishimwe, said that after the designated date, the process of provisional registration of all lands that have not yet been registered with the government begins.
After the census, it was found that there were about 1.4 million uninhabited plots of land, which were then registered to the state.
However, Marie Grace Nishimwe pointed out that after the land was registered with the state, some owners came to register and once they produced documents proving that the land belonged to them, they were registered.
He said: “After the state registration, the number of places where residents have registered now is about 320. The registration process is not over yet, but after the residents have completed the requirements one by one, they came to display and register their land.
The National Land Agency said a citizen who owns land that is provisionally registered with the state, if he wants to register it, must go to the land committee at the unit and department level and then collect the property certificate, which is how he will get the land document.
Marie Grace Nishimwe, Director-General, National Land Institute
Marie Grace Nishimwe, director of the Land Institute, noted that one of the reasons some people do not register their land before registering it with the government is the cost of land registration, which some say is high.
However, with the introduction of a decree abolishing land registration fees, this obstacle was also removed, which is why people quickly woke up to registration.
“If you look at the number of people registering now, they are three times as many as before, and the order does not eliminate the cost of land registration compared to before,” said Nishime.
The National Land Agency is asking all residents who know they own land but have not registered it to contact the land committees in their area of residence, Tugali and Mirenge, to request documents allowing them to register their land.
“We are asking people to register their land because government has done its part by eliminating the cost of services and there is no reason to have unregistered land,” Nisimwe said.
Some residents show little knowledge of land registration
Some residents who spoke to Kigali Today said they knew their land was registered when officers from the Land Office went around the country to count the land.
Residents say they know little about land registration
There was an increase in 2009, but what was done was not to register the land, but to list it so that people received documents confirming it was theirs.
A man named Rudasingwa Jean Bosco from Huye district told Kigali Today: “I had the documents they gave me when they came to count the land, so I knew my land documents were expired. Later I found out that these were not documents and I had to go to the ministry to register the real documents”.
At this point, land documents have been digitized (E-Title), and citizens no longer need to look for paper documents as documents of the land they own.
The National Land Office said all information related to land is recorded in the land register and anyone who needs it can find it.
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