Lands Commission to roll out $85m project

The Lands Commission will, beginning next year, partner a private company to roll out an $85-million project aimed at transforming land administration in the country.

As part of the project, the investor will help to develop digital maps of the country, build the human resource capacity of the Lands Commission through training and retraining, retool the Commission and help to consolidate the digitisation of land records.

The acting Executive Secretary of the Lands Commission, Benjamin Arthur, who made this known yesterday, explained that the plan was to ensure that the investor put in the needed resources to implement the intervention so that the Lands Commission would repay the investment over a longer period of time from internally generated funds.

Mr Arthur explained that, the partnership with the investor was a comprehensive move that would help build a robust system to weed out activities that promoted corruption.

He explained that through the digital mapping process, the Lands Commission would establish a national spatial data infrastructure that would allow all agencies to tap into that data for their purposes.

“What is important is that we want to make sure that the Lands Commission clear itself of the bad image it has in the public,” he said.

The deputy minister also underscored the need for the Lands Commission to make sure that all illegal actors in the provision of services were removed.