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ACT Liberia

Locality: Paynesville

Phone: +231 77 611 1602

Address: Duport Road Paynesville, WA, Australia

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18.01.2022 Episode 3: The ONLY proof to show that a land belongs to you in Liberia is a LAND DEED that is REGISTERED and PROBATED. If you don’t have a deed for the land you are claiming, it means do you not have a claim over that land. And if the deed you have is not registered with the archives and probated by the court, you still cannot claim that land. Some people pay for land and when are issued a receipt, they tend to keep the receipt to use it as a proof that the land belongs to... them. They are some people too that are holders of tribal certificates and claiming ownership to the land. And there are some too who surveyed the land, got a deed from the surveyor and they are just keeping the deed without registering the deed or probating it. 1. Receipt is not a deed and cannot give you claim to a land. 2. Tribal certificate too is not a deed. It’s only the first step in obtaining a deed when you obtain land from the customary people. 3. Unregistered deed and deed that is not probated is as good as not having a deed at all. The essence of registering your deed is such that when your deed gets lost or stolen or destroyed, you can easily go back to the archives where you registered your deed and get new copy of your same deed with your exact details. The archives in this case serves as a storage facility to protected your important documents. It’s also important to probate your deed because when confusion comes over the land, it’s the court that the confusion will go to and in that case, since the court already probated your deed, it means they have knowledge of it which could help you win your case. For more information and to support this campaign, call ACT on 0776111601 or 0776111602. You can also reach us at [email protected] or visit our website at www.contactact.org and you can also follow us on Twitter, instagram and YouTube.

16.01.2022 Episode 2: Categories of Land Ownership Since 2018, Liberia has 4 types of land when it comes to ownership: - Private Land: These are land own by private indiv...iduals. It belongs to them and they can do whatever they want with it including selling it, leasing it or even giving out to somebody as a gift. - Public Land: This category is all land that belongs to the state. It is not own by any particular person or institution. It is for all Liberians. It also serves as the nation’s ‘land bank’ where any citizen or group of citizens including government can get land from. And it’s for future use too. Public land is managed by the government. - Government: Government land is any land that is being used by government for the running of the government. For example all land that have government structures like the city halls, government schools, government hospitals, administration buildings on them are all government land. Government can also buy or acquire land for the use of government and it will be government land. This too is managed by government. - Customary Land: This is land acquired and owned by a community in line with their customary practices and traditions , norms and if they have been on that land for 50 years or more. Their ownership can even be established by oral testimony since plenty writing business was not around by that time. *Then there is one last part called PROTECTED AREAS. It cuts across all the four categories talked about above. Protected Areas are land the Forestry Development Authority (FDA) set aside in line with the FDA Act of 2006. This can be on any of the 4 categories. For more details, contact ACT on 0776111601 or 0776111602 or email us at [email protected]

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01.01.2022 Episode 4: Ownership to land in Liberia is perpetual. If you own a land, you should own it forever until you decide to sell it or give it to someone else. But the the Land Rights Act of 2018 says if you own a private land, you stand a chance to loose your land if you abandon it. We will talk about how the law defines abandonment in our next episode. Keep following. But note that abandonment ONLY affects private land. Customary land, public land and government land cannot be lost to abandonment.