By E. Festus G. FrazerJr, efgfrazerjr@gmail.com
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The Liberia Land Authority (LLA) has begun a three days training on the dissemination of Information on the Land Rights Act and the Land Authority Act in Gbarnga, Bong County.
Speaking during the opening ceremony on Wednesday, the LLA’s communication and outreach officer, Mr. Emmanuel Chedeh Davis said the participants are drawn from three counties–Bong, Nimba and Lofa.
He said the participants are mainly County superintendents, county Land Administrators, Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) and journalists among others. He further indicated that the delegates will be trained in various areas including, Land Rights, Customary Land Governance as well as community land Governance structure among others.
“Our delegates were selected from the three counties in central Liberia. We also selected them from different sector of the counties including the county leadership, the county land office, civil society and the media. We are going to training them in different areas of land acquisition.”Mr. Davis said.
The Chairman of the Liberia Land Authority, Atty. J. Adams Manobah and the County Oversight commissioner of the Liberia Land Authority, Cllr. Kula L. Jackson called on the participants to be focused during the course of the training.
They said that the training will reveal real world challenges that they will be confronted with, as they go about educating people about land matters in their various counties.
At the same time, the superintendent of Bong County, Madam Esther Walker thanked the LLA for including women land rights as one of those panel discussions.
She admonished females attending the workshop to be very focus during the course of the training.
“Honorable chairman of LLA, I want to say thank you for adding women rights to own land as one of your points of discussion. I very impressed and I am using this opportunity to call on all the women in here to be very focus during this training to understand their rights.” Superintendent Walker asserted.
The training is expected to end on Friday, October 9, 2020.