The Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC) has said that limited access to information is a major cause for land corruption which has prevailed in Nigeria and the West Africa sub-region. The center’s Executive Director, Auwal Musa Rafsanjani said this on Wednesday in Abuja, at the Advocacy meeting of Transparency International (TI) West Africa Chapters and presentation of ‘Policy Paper on Land Corruption in West Africa’ and ‘Corruption in Education System in West Africa’.
He said other causes are the laws and procedures regulating land ownership are complex and there is worsened by insufficient access to justice. According to him, the lack of capacity of local land offices and traditional institutions has hindered good governance practices.
“An Amnesty International report title ‘Nigeria: The Harvest of Death’ which was released in December 2018, showed that violent clashes between members of farmer communities and members of herder communities claimed 3,641 lives between January 2016 and October 2018 in Nigeria. On his part, the Africa Regional Advisor, TI, Mr. Samuel Kaninda, said the TI is making efforts for policies to be implemented because they believe that where Government is transparent, it is easy for them to engage and prosecute corrupt people. Daily Trust
