AS
a two - month ultimatum given to owners of uncollected title deeds
draws near, about 76 per cent of the documents which were piled up at
the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Human Settlement Development have
been collected.
Minister for Lands, Housing and Human Settlement Development, Mr William Lukuvi, early July this year issued the two -month ultimatum to owners of the title deeds in Dar es Salaam and Coast Region who did not collect them to do so before his office embark on a special operation to track them down.
Mr Lukuvi said that there were more than 5,000 title deeds piled up at his ministry and failure by the owners to collect them has caused difficulties in storing other important documents.
“This is going to be the last announcement... after the expiry of the deadline, we are going to conduct house to house inspection in all districts and regions to identify people who applied for the title deeds and failed to collect them and others will be revoked for plots which have not been developed,” he noted.
He said that the inspection will also help to establish why the applicants were not collecting their documents.
The Ministry’s acting Registrar of Titles, Mr Kastor Ngonyani, told the ‘Sunday News’ that the ultimatum issued by the minister received a positive response, especially two weeks after the announcement.
Mr Ngonyani detailed that out of 5000 title deeds which were not collected from the ministry, 3,755 have so far been collected, in which 1,994 were new title deeds, 942 mortgage deeds and 819 land certificates for other transactions.
“We are insisting to owners of the remaining title deeds to come and collect their documents, because the planned inspection is still intact... we want to make sure that all the certificates are collected,” Mr Ngonyani said. Minister Lukuvi, however, observed that to date, procedures of obtaining title deeds have been improved compared to the past, whereby the proprietor can acquire the document within a month.
“Some people are still having the notion that when you apply for a title deed, one has to wait for one to two years to get the documents, things have changed nowadays, the land certificate can be obtained within a month,” Minister Lukuvi added.
He observed that owners of the uncollected title deeds should show up and collect their documents because there will be no cost incurred by collecting the documents.
Minister for Lands, Housing and Human Settlement Development, Mr William Lukuvi, early July this year issued the two -month ultimatum to owners of the title deeds in Dar es Salaam and Coast Region who did not collect them to do so before his office embark on a special operation to track them down.
Mr Lukuvi said that there were more than 5,000 title deeds piled up at his ministry and failure by the owners to collect them has caused difficulties in storing other important documents.
“This is going to be the last announcement... after the expiry of the deadline, we are going to conduct house to house inspection in all districts and regions to identify people who applied for the title deeds and failed to collect them and others will be revoked for plots which have not been developed,” he noted.
He said that the inspection will also help to establish why the applicants were not collecting their documents.
The Ministry’s acting Registrar of Titles, Mr Kastor Ngonyani, told the ‘Sunday News’ that the ultimatum issued by the minister received a positive response, especially two weeks after the announcement.
Mr Ngonyani detailed that out of 5000 title deeds which were not collected from the ministry, 3,755 have so far been collected, in which 1,994 were new title deeds, 942 mortgage deeds and 819 land certificates for other transactions.
“We are insisting to owners of the remaining title deeds to come and collect their documents, because the planned inspection is still intact... we want to make sure that all the certificates are collected,” Mr Ngonyani said. Minister Lukuvi, however, observed that to date, procedures of obtaining title deeds have been improved compared to the past, whereby the proprietor can acquire the document within a month.
“Some people are still having the notion that when you apply for a title deed, one has to wait for one to two years to get the documents, things have changed nowadays, the land certificate can be obtained within a month,” Minister Lukuvi added.
He observed that owners of the uncollected title deeds should show up and collect their documents because there will be no cost incurred by collecting the documents.
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