FG To Strenghten Land Registration Process Nationwide

The Federal Government began a nationwide
land titling and registration through the
Presidential Technical Committee on Land
Reform, PTCLR.
The maiden zonal workshop for stakeholders
in the South-East geopolitical zone kicked off
yesterday in Enugu.
“Since formal land registration commenced in
the country over 100 years ago, less than
three percent of land nationwide has been
registered,” said Prof. Peter Adeniyi,
Chairman, PTCLR, in his opening remarks.
“Land issues touch all strata of the society.
It serves as socio-political instrument to
reshape the economy. In particular, it is an
invaluable economic factor for empowerment
and national development.
“The absence of proper documentation of
interests in land has been compounded by
several other issues, including ignorance,
illiteracy, inadequate regulations and policy
guidelines, poor governance infrastructure,
prohibitive cost of processing titles, absence
of transparency, inadequate skilled
manpower, overlapping institutional
functions,customs and tradition.”
Adeniyi said the essence of the workshop
was to, “encourage and assist states and
local governments to establish an
arbititration mechanism for land ownership
conflict resolution; make recommendations
for the establishment of National Depository
for Land Titles Holdings and Records in all
states of the Federation and the FCT.”
He further revealed that the PTCLR adopted
the Systematic Land Titling and
Registration,SLTR, in line with global best
practices and urged the stakeholders to
embrace the policy.
He said that the workshop will be conducted
in all the six geopolitical zones of the
country.