The Government is considering relocating the Zonal Land
Administration Offices, currently based in Moshi, to operate in Arusha
where it seems to be mostly needed.
The Minister of Land, Housing and Human Settlements, Mr William Lukuvi was of the view that because Arusha faces more land related conflicts, possibly more than any other part of Tanzania, it was high time the Northern Zone’s Land Administration offices are shifted from Moshi, in Kilimanjaro region to Arusha.
Mr Lukuvi who has just completed his tour of Arusha region revealed here that already a special team of officers from the Ministry of Land, Housing and Human Settlements has been dispatched to set camp in Arusha for the purpose of addressing and solving hundreds of emerging land and plot related issues that have been piling up for many years in Arusha.
The Minister of Land, Housing and Human Settlements, Mr William Lukuvi was of the view that because Arusha faces more land related conflicts, possibly more than any other part of Tanzania, it was high time the Northern Zone’s Land Administration offices are shifted from Moshi, in Kilimanjaro region to Arusha.
Mr Lukuvi who has just completed his tour of Arusha region revealed here that already a special team of officers from the Ministry of Land, Housing and Human Settlements has been dispatched to set camp in Arusha for the purpose of addressing and solving hundreds of emerging land and plot related issues that have been piling up for many years in Arusha.
Minister for Lands, Housing and Human Settlement Development, William
Lukuvi (left) in a discussion with Arusha City Director Juma Idd, Regional
Administrative Officer, Hamduni Mansoor and Lands Officer Christopher
Kitundu. The government plans to spend Tsh.8.5 billion to improve the city
looks.
Land related conflicts have been the order of the
day in Arusha, despite the region’s scant population of just 1.7
residents occupying its, rather large, seven districts.
Territorial battles usually bring into confrontation, livestock herders, especially nomadic pastoralists, who frequently fight farmers. On the other hand the two groups also keep clashing with investors and real estate developers.
Territorial battles usually bring into confrontation, livestock herders, especially nomadic pastoralists, who frequently fight farmers. On the other hand the two groups also keep clashing with investors and real estate developers.
Land demarcation and surveys have been slow.
However, of late more than 260 villages have already been surveyed in
Arusha which account for 86 percent of the 300 villages that are found
within the seven districts in the region.
Out of those some 251 other villages or 84
percent of the total have so far been registered and 130 villages
already presented with certificates of land ownership.
Arusha which occupies over 34,000 square
kilometres of land has also surveyed 166 large estates and smaller
farms found in rural parts of the region and 353 plots located in urban
areas and so far a total of 870 Title Deeds have been issued to
holders.
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