Valuation of their properties was confirmed in 2014 on the land on which district’s offices are to be developed.
The value was put at Rwf177 million as compensation for 22 households.
Offended residents claim losses as they are denied to use land for anything else other than growing crops that do not stay long on the soil.
One of them is John Nsanzimana. He has told IGIHE that they have waited for long without being expropriated.
“We are not allowed to use our land for our projects and the district is not paying us compensation. We cannot even sell it (land) to any other client because the district did the valuation,” he said.
The land is located in Gakenke Sector. The sector’s Executive Secretary Félicien Cyubahiro, confirmed that plots’ owners are not allowed to do lasting projects like developing houses or growing crops that take longer than 120 days to be harvested.
This is because, he said, the plots owners can be compensated anytime
The district’s engineer Valens Mpabanzi says the expropriation has been delayed by lack of required documents on the side of the land owners.
He said the lists are now ready for all meeting the requirements to be paid not later than one week.
“The first group’s payroll has been done for them to receive payment by this week.”
Mpabanzi added the 22 will be compensated in two phases. Phase one is in the first part of 2018/2019 fiscal year running from July to December. The second part falls in the revised national budget starting in January to end in June 2019.
Law relating to expropriation in the public interest states that the compensation shall be disbursed in 120 days maximum from the time of valuation.
In case of delay, the property’s value increases by 5% every year but the delay shall not exceed the period of two years.
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