{"id":1460,"date":"2021-09-17T00:44:06","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T00:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stage.thedaylight.org\/wp68\/?p=1460"},"modified":"2022-04-17T15:17:50","modified_gmt":"2022-04-17T15:17:50","slug":"ex-senate-pro-tempore-claims-850-acres-of-community-land-in-gbarpolu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stage.thedaylight.org\/wp68\/2021\/09\/17\/ex-senate-pro-tempore-claims-850-acres-of-community-land-in-gbarpolu\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Senate Pro Tempore Claims 850 Acres of Community Land in Gbarpolu"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Banner Image: A portion of former Senator Armah Jallah\u2019s controversial palm plantation in the Fallah Clan of Bopolu District, Gbarpolu County. The DayLight\/James Harding Giahyue<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Former Senator Armah Zolu Jallah claims 850 acres of land he received from the chief of Fallah Clan, his uncle in 2016, for a palm plantation.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Residents of the clan did not participate in the decision to give Jallah the land. Now they do not have farmland and are farming elsewhere<\/li><li>Jallah and Domah do not recognize the residents\u2019 collective ownership of the land. They claim the land belongs to their forebears, not the community.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>An individual cannot own a community land under the Land Rights Act but Jallah argues he got the land before the law was passed. &nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The story comes amid a series of \u2018elite land-grab&#8217; in Liberia, following an array of sweetheart concessions agreements that have pushed       the country\u2019s rural poor further into poverty<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By James Harding Giahyue<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">UNDERWEAR TOWN, Gbarpolu County \u2013 Armah Zolu Jallah, the former President Pro Tempore of the Liberian Senate, is claiming 850 acres of the land in Fallah Clan, Bopulu District. The palm plantation he has developed on the land is one of the largest farms in Gbarpolu County, employing up to 150 people before the coronavirus pandemic, according to him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But several townspeople in the area interviewed by The DayLight did not participate in the process through which he got the land. We could not independently verify the size of the plantation and land Jallah is claiming but it covers nearly all of the land around Underwear in the Bopulu District. Villagers are now in search of farmland elsewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt (Jallah&#8217;s palm plantation) affects Ekki Village,\u201d said David Morris, a resident of the Village next to Underwear Town. \u201cPeople can\u2019t farm there anymore,\u201d Morris said he and other townsmen would resist if Jallah tried to extend his plantation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jallah denies any wrongdoing, saying the people in Ekki Village were \u201csquatters.\u201d \u201cThey have no right to be where they are,\u201d Jallah, 54, said in a mobile interview with The DayLight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alfred Domah, Jallah\u2019s uncle who approved of his possession of the land, said 500 acres of the controversial land belonged to Zulu Siafa, the former senator\u2019s late grandfather after whom he was named, and 350 acres to Miatta Kamara, his late mother. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cArmah Jallah came to me so that he could plant something so that the community can benefit,\u201d Domah told The DayLight, counter-accusing Jallah\u2019s accusers of being \u201cjealous\u201d of his accomplishments. \u201cWhere do the Ekki Village people come from? They are who? &nbsp;They just forced themselves there because that\u2019s government land.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not just Ekki Village, people in the very Underwear Town were also not part of the process to give Jallah the land. The town was named after its founder, a native of &nbsp;Kpatawee in Bong County who was often seen wearing a singlet, the local legend goes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe situation in Underwear Town is getting difficult because of the land the man took to do his farm,\u201d said Joseph Sirleaf, Jr., the town\u2019s youth leader in an interview with The DayLight. He and four other people were at their charcoal site on the remnant of an afforestation plantation owned by the Forestry Development Authority (FDA) across the Barma River.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThey disregard us,\u201d said David Morris, 75, Domah\u2019s neighbor, who said he had lived in the town for 52 years but was excluded from land matters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jallah said there was no reason to get the consent of the entire town as his family own the land. \u201cOn land issues, we don\u2019t go around talking to everybody,\u201d he said. \u201cThe lands in the Underwear area are owned by our fore-parents. If we intend to do something in Underwear Town, we go to them (relatives).\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Samuel Sumo, 52, the husband of the daughter of the man after whom Underwear was named, accused Jallah of bribing Domah with L$10,000, a motorcycle, and roofing sheets. That accusation was also made by Morris, Sileaf, the people in Ekki Village and other people The DayLight interviewed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jallah declined to comment on the matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Domah denies the accusation. \u201cAnybody tells you that one is a black lie,\u201d the 80-something-year-old Domah said. \u201cIf I bring medicine now, [and] they eat [it], tomorrow you will go bury that people.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"958\" height=\"620\" src=\"https:\/\/stage.thedaylight.org\/wp68\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Armah-Jallah.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stage.thedaylight.org\/wp68\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Armah-Jallah.png 958w, https:\/\/stage.thedaylight.org\/wp68\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Armah-Jallah-600x388.png 600w, https:\/\/stage.thedaylight.org\/wp68\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Armah-Jallah-300x194.png 300w, https:\/\/stage.thedaylight.org\/wp68\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Armah-Jallah-768x497.png 768w, https:\/\/stage.thedaylight.org\/wp68\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Armah-Jallah-150x97.png 150w, https:\/\/stage.thedaylight.org\/wp68\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Armah-Jallah-696x450.png 696w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 958px) 100vw, 958px\" \/><figcaption>Former Senator Armah Zolu Jallah claims 850 acres of community land in Fallah Clan in the Bopolu District of Gbarpolu County. Facebook\/Armah Jallah <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Liberia\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/extwprlegs1.fao.org\/docs\/pdf\/lbr182407.pdf\">Land Rights Act<\/a> recognizes customary land ownership and mandates land-related decisions meet the consent of the community, including women and the youth (Before it, women in most rural communities were not allowed to discuss or own land). Fallah Clan needs to meet the requirements under the law to carry out land transactions. It has not declared itself a landowning community and does not have a land-governance body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u2018Our Inheritance\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The accusation against Jallah, whose efforts as a senator of Lofa County led to the creation of Gbarpolu in 2001, comes amid &nbsp;a growing number of what campaigners call \u201celite land-grabs.\u201d A 2019 Sustainable Development Institute (SDI) report <a href=\"https:\/\/www.farmlandgrab.org\/post\/view\/29034-liberia-report-implicates-govt-officials-in-massive-land-grabs\">found past and current government officials at that time may have stolen 9,000 hectares of land<\/a> in the neighboring Bomi County. It is an unfortunate tale of a country whose history of concessional land-grab dates as far back as the mid-1920s with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/firestone-and-the-warlord-chapter-2\">Firestone<\/a> and continues today with companies like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/liberia-palmoil\/liberias-biggest-palm-oil-project-quits-eco-certification-scheme-idUSL8N1UH09X\">Golden Veroleum Liberia<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cElite land grab is a threat to communities\u2019 land rights, a recipe for land conflicts and source of internal division within communities. It&#8217;s facilitated by bribery, power and political influence,\u201d said Nora Bowier a lead campaigner at SDI. \u201cIt worsens poverty as it deprives communities of their rights to a fair deal and economic benefits from their land and resources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThese things undermine the intent of the Land Rights Act.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But Jallah argues he acquired the controversial land before the legislation and does not necessarily have to act within its confines. \u201cThe land there is for us by inheritance,\u201d said Jallah, who was a senator when the Land Rights Act was passed into law. \u201cMy mother was given land there, and additional land was given to me there by my grandfather. What you see there precedes what you call Land Rights Act or Land Authority regulations.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jallah was right. He first cleared the land in 2016 and made a rice farm. The next year, he started planting the palm and continued up to 2018, the year the law was created. However, the <a href=\"https:\/\/land-links.org\/2013\/05\/liberia-produces-first-ever-land-rights-policy-protects-customary-ownership\/#:~:text=Liberia%20Produces%20First%2DEver%20Land%20Rights%20Policy%2C%20Protects%20Customary%20Ownership,-May%2023%2C%202013&amp;text=According%20to%20the%20new%20policy,historic%20use%2C%20or%20intended%20use.\">Land Rights Policy<\/a>, which laid the framework for land reform in Liberia, had been in place since 2013. It recommended, \u201cDecision about customary land will be made at the most local level consistent with sound policy and shared responsibilities between the government, communities and their members.\u201d The policy was meant to curtail a horde of land-related conflicts across the country that spiraled out of control in the early 2000s after 14 years of bloody civil war. It would lead to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clientearth.org\/media\/vf5jl02z\/act-2009-the-liberia-land-authority-act-ext-fr.pdf\">Liberia Land Authority<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/extwprlegs1.fao.org\/docs\/pdf\/lbr146964.pdf\">the Act Against Criminal Conveyance of Land<\/a> and the current land law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jallah claims he holds his mother\u2019s deed for the land. \u00a0Sylvester Jallah, his younger brother, has tribal certificates, seen by The DayLight, for a combined 750 acres of land plus a couple of lots in the same region. But the Land Rights Act addresses titles related to customary land before it became law. It mandates all tribal certificates be vetted and transformed into deeds. a process that has already started, with some deeds already issued, according to Adams Manobah, the chairman of the Land Authority. Moreover, it categorizes lands obtained through aborigine deeds as customary lands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIn those days when people were advocating for land for rural communities, they used the names of chiefs and elders to sign the deed on behalf of the entire community,\u201d said Alphonso Henries a campaigner with Liberia Reform Movement, which advocates for land rights. \u201cBut it doesn\u2019t mean that that chief whose name is on the deed owns the land or his children.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gbarpolu is a hub for aborigine land grant deeds that are written in chiefs\u2019 names. The late Paramount Jallah Lone\u2014the former senator\u2019s father\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/eeas.europa.eu\/archives\/delegations\/liberia\/documents\/press_corner\/20130916_01.pdf?fbclid=IwAR00jmxyO6Jcry9nF3jCXXy8h2V_KaN2Z3RocRXE7XUGRQSsryhMhmsFRQM\">claimed he controlled 790,982 acres of land in Bopolu<\/a>. \u00a0The county came under the spotlight in the private use permit (PUP) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalwitness.org\/en\/archive\/ngos-welcome-landmark-indictments-liberian-government-officials-attached-illegal-logging\/\">Scandal of 2012<\/a>. In the biggest intrigue to hit the forestland sector since the end of the Liberian Civil War, officials of the FDA connived with logging companies, and private landowners to loot Liberian logs. Seven of the 62 PUPs abused in the scam came from Gbarpolu, six of them Bopolu alone, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/eeas.europa.eu\/archives\/delegations\/liberia\/documents\/press_corner\/20130916_01.pdf?fbclid=IwAR00jmxyO6Jcry9nF3jCXXy8h2V_KaN2Z3RocRXE7XUGRQSsryhMhmsFRQM\">report<\/a> that year by the then Land Commission. They covered 627,657 hectares of land or 20 percent of the total PUP-affected landmass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ali Kaba, a land rights expert and one of the crafters of the Land Rights Act, warns authorities to prevent another countrywide crisis. &nbsp;\u201cIn light of the PUP Scandal, I think it is important for the government to formulate regulations addressing land claims (private or otherwise) in customary communities,\u201d Kaba said in an emailed interview. \u201cAs demonstrated by the scandal, the lack of clear regulations can lead to land-grabs by elites and the eviction of rural communities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Land Authority is aware of the potential for conflict over community land and will complete the land rights regulations within the next six months, according to Manobah. He said people claiming land from tribal certificates and aborigine deeds like Jallah must have the backing of their communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf the community says they don\u2019t know about it, we can\u2019t force them to say they know about it,\u201d he tells me in a mobile phone interview. \u201cIf you have a tribal certificate and you developed portion of the [land that tribal certificate represents]\u2026the area that you developed is a hundred percent for you on grounds that the tribal certificate is good. If it is not good at all, then you don\u2019t have any claim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOn that ground, we can\u2019t say you have the land. That is when you and the community will have to negotiate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Back in Underwear Town, Jallah enjoys the support of the chiefs and elders, while there remains opposition to his possession of the land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt is good for a single person to get 850 acres of a clan land because the people are benefiting, said Janga Togba, the town chief of Underwear, who works at the plantation. \u201cAt the end of the day, we will benefit.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThey gave the land to Armah Jallah and don\u2019t have any land to farm on again,\u201d said Alex Roberts, an aggrieved resident of Underwear Town. \u201cWe are all looking for an area to make our farms.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Henry Gboluma contributed to this report.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>This story is a part of The DayLight Land-grab Reporting Series.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Banner Image: A portion of former Senator Armah Jallah\u2019s controversial palm plantation in the Fallah Clan of Bopolu District, Gbarpolu County. 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