After my father's death the department of surveys and physical planning has been allocating people on plots we have always known to belong to us. This has happened always when everyone of us the children are off some to work and some to school and my mum is alone at home in Mzimba.
The first time it happened, we found out that most of the important documents were mising from the lands office. Fortunately there was a file which was thought to contain information about an already sold off plot but had information enough to reproduce the documents of all our plots. Even though, this information was available, we have been trying to get the lands office to reproduce these documents without much success.
When we left home having agreed they would resolve these issues with her, they turned against her putting in conditions which on her own she could not fulfill therefore frustrating the process of resolution. Aside from that they decided to allocate some other people on our other plot again not following the laws.
All these actions were done in the name of subdivision of the land and would not have been effected without written documentation and our signed agreement and the approval of a councillor.
These actions appear to be deliberate and seem to take advantage of our absence and the fact that mum cannot resolve them on her own.
This is something I cannot allow, if today I fail for lack money to go to court, I will do so when I do get the money. Those who have built their houses on our registered lands will have to demolish them. No new law has effect on the land registered under the law this land is.
I can do so because I am not ignorant but there are many who are and can't afford to go to court and fight against the monies. Things would be worse for a political councillor than an administrative one who can at least execute his job without partiality.
And for the corrupt officers, I would love they were also replaced in favour of impartial officers who will do their jobs well and avoid much bloodshed rising due to land disputes.
The current law has in place many mechanisms to avoid land disputes if followed.
And I feel most of the corrupt practices so rampant in our nation today were resolved automatically during Kamuzu's era through the same laws a careful study of the laws and ways of governance could be of much benefit for integration of these laws into the current government system.