By Daily News Reporter in Zanzibar
THE Second
Vice-President, Ambassador Seif Ali Iddi has said that increasing
construction of
houses on the three-acre plots is against the objective
behind the distribution of plots to the poor shortly after the 1964
revolution.
Iddi said there has
been inappropriate use of land allocated for petty farming to support
poor people in villages as planned by the late Abeid Karume after the
end of the sultanate British backed regime.
He urged residents
not to construct houses on farming land. The Second Vice-President
appealed to local leaders (Shehas and District) to ensure that the land
planned for small scale farming to support poor families as intended by
the late Karume, when he declared equality in landownership is
respected.
In 2015, the
government launched inspection and verification of land ownership in the
country and warned people not to sale the three acres plots, because it
was given to them only for farming.
Ministers Mr
Mohammed Aboud Mohammed (State Minister) and Ms Salama Aboud Talib
(Land, Water, Housing and Energy), have also on several occasions warned
that the government will take punitive action against people who sell
three-acres of land allocated for farming in rural areas.
During the colonial
days (before revolution), large pieces of land in the islands was owned
by rich 'Indians, traditional rulers (Mwinyi Mkuu), and Arabs', but
after the 1964 Revolution, the first President of Zanzibar, the late
Abeid Karume declared land as government property and distributed 3-acre
plots to hundreds of residents in rural areas for farming.
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