Africa-Press – Angola. The Ombudsman, Florbela Araújo, and the Minister of Territory Administration, Dionísio da Fonseca, discussed, this Monday, mechanisms for improving information to citizens, in order to avoid land conflicts.
To the press, at the end of the meeting at the headquarters of the Ministry of Territory Administration, the Ombudsman said that it was also necessary to disclose the laws of land use planning and the master plans for local development to avoid land conflicts.
Florbela Araújo stressed that citizens may still have difficulties in recognizing their rights, but the State must ensure information to prevent illegal occupation of land and construction without a license.
For this reason, he suggested amending and updating the land law and territorial planning to adapt them to current reality.
Florbela Araújo defended more practical and faster land laws and territorial planning in the attribution of licenses and surface rights titles, as well as advised greater sensitivity in situations of rehousing citizens.
In this sense, he also considered it essential that provincial governments and municipal administrations improve supervision and communication in order to, in a timely manner, discourage the intention of building in unauthorized places.
For the Ombudsman, “it would be more sensible to prevent the construction of a property without a license or other administrative impediment before the start of the work, than to demolish it after the citizen has committed his meager resources, claiming that it is State reserve land”.
Florbela Araújo asked the minister for facilities for the installation of Ombudsman offices at provincial governments, in order to expand services and promote greater proximity to citizens.
Within the framework of this strategy, he informed that focal points should be set up made up of officials from the Ombudsman’s Office and the MAT to raise the level of information for citizens and help solve specific problems as quickly as possible.
She stated that she had been informed of the preparation of a process to amend land laws and territorial planning.
Likewise, he also pointed out, among the main concerns of the Ombudsman’s Office, procedural delays in the courts, the situation of pensioners and land conflicts.
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