By William Madouk<\/p>\n
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Thousands of residents in Gudele have filed a petition in the Gudele High Court against the Central Equatoria State Ministry of House, Lands, and Public Utilities over the allocation of their plots to Non-residents.<\/p>\n
The angry residents say they have been holding the land acquisition tokens since 2006 but have not received their plots.<\/p>\n
About 1,665 indignant households yesterday submitted their petition to the Gudele High Court demanding the state ministry of housing to answer their grievances before the court.<\/p>\n
In their plea seen by this outlet, the affected residents protested against the CES Ministry of House, Lands, and Public Utilities for unfair land allocation to outsiders, rather than indigenous.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe appellant against [CES Ministry of Land] demarcated Gudele [1,2,3,4,5,6,7] areas after a social survey – all names of complainers were registered and they paid fees. However, the appellant against allotted land to non-resident individuals and this violates Art 90 of Land Act 2009,\u201d partly reads the statement.<\/p>\n
According to the complainants, since 2009, approximately 3,777 individuals have been left without land despite having tokens. Their efforts to address the issue have been ignored.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe the complainers have been deprived of our rights to obtain our portion of lands as all state authorities ordered for halting of demarcation in the aforementioned areas,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n
A gubernatorial order No: 4\/2012, the former governor for CES, Mr. Clement Wani Konga ordered for halting of all demarcation activities and compensation of people who are having tokens.<\/p>\n
Similarly, the state anti-corruption commission in their letter dated June 26, 2012, provided tokens for the land survey committee at the ministry. However, the CES Ministry of Housing and Land issued a letter to the court banning any further demarcations.<\/p>\n
Indignant residents said they have obtained a no-objection letter from the National Ministry of Justice and Constitutional to open a watertight legal suit against the CES Ministry of Housing and Lands.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith all the above-mentioned reasons from my client [plaintiff] of their land being allocated to non-residents, I appeal to your esteemed court to abolish documents of those non-residents,\u201d said defense lawyer, Mubarak Samson.<\/p>\n
The defense lawyer demands order for the release of the complainants’ documents and be allotted lands in their respective locations in the Gudele area.<\/p>\n
The Gudele high court judge accepted the petition pending procedures before the date could be fixed for the accused to appear before a court for a hearing. The victims have now to wait for the judge to settle this case.<\/p>\n
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