By Augustine Octavius
The Liberia Land Authority (LLA) has strongly warned surveyors against violating the regulations on the surveying of land that will be approved by the Legislature
LLA’s Chairman, Dr. Othello Brandy said the regulations are intended to reduce land conflict, the double sale of land and surveying of land without the proper authorization and documents
Dr. Brandy gave the warning at the opening of a two-day strategic forum organized by the Liberia Land Authority in collaboration with the Land Governance Support Activity with funding the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in Monrovia.
He said that the LLA has assumed the functions of the Land Bureau from the Ministry of Energy and Mines and is working out modalities to absorb the functions of land commissioners under the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Dr. Brandy pointed out that some surveyors have contributing to the land conflicts prevailing in several parts of the country and cautioned them against producing fake land deeds.
According to the Criminal Conveyance of Land Law, ‘a surveyor who encourages, persuades, surveys, uses his influence or in any other way participates or conspires with anyone in the sale or purchase of a parcel of land, knowing or being in the position to know that the seller of such land has no lawful title is guilty of a first degree felony punishable by both a fine, a prison term of not less than ten years and a permanent renovation of his license to practice as a surveyor.’