{"id":1761,"date":"2021-11-27T16:05:12","date_gmt":"2021-11-27T16:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stage.thedaylight.org\/wp68\/?p=1761"},"modified":"2021-11-27T16:05:15","modified_gmt":"2021-11-27T16:05:15","slug":"ex-pro-tempores-brother-claims-750-acres-of-community-land-in-gbarpolu-locals-say-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stage.thedaylight.org\/wp68\/2021\/11\/27\/ex-pro-tempores-brother-claims-750-acres-of-community-land-in-gbarpolu-locals-say-no\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Pro Tempore\u2019s Brother Claims 750 Acres of Community Land in Gbarpolu, Locals Say No"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Banner Image: A portion of the 750 acres of land Sylvester Jallah is claiming in Fallah Clan, 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<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By James Harding Giahyue<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Darkollie Sylvester Jallah, a brother of the former President Pro Tempore of the Liberian Senate, claims 750 acres of land in Fallah Clan, Gbarpolu County<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>He said his late father, the famed Paramount Chief Jallah Lone, gave him the land &nbsp;in the early 2000s<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Residents of the clan disapprove of his ownership of the land, accusing him of using his family status to deny them of farmland<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Campaign groups call on the government to investigate \u201celite land-grabs\u201d they say are happening across the country.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">FALLAH CLAN, Gbarpolu County \u2013 A brother of Armah Jallah, former President Pro Tempore of the Liberian Senate, is claiming ownership of 750 acres of land in Bopolu District, Gbarpolu County. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Darkollie Sylvester Jallah lays claim to 500 acres of farmland in Fallah Clan and another 250 acres in Barma Clan in the Gungbeyah Chiefdom, bordering Bomi County. He has cultivated 124 acres of the land in Fallah Clan, farming vegetables, pigs and goats, with a workforce between 20 and 25 people. He said he has invested over US$6,000 so far on the land and plans to plant cocoa in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, local farmers challenge Jallah\u2019s claims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe land that Sylvester Jallah is occupying was not given to him by the citizens\u2026 the way it supposed to be,\u201d said David Morris, a resident of Fallah Clan.<strong>\u201c<\/strong>He came on that land without the consent of the citizens of Fallah.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSylvester and the Fallah [Clan] people are not friendly\u2026, because of the way he forced himself on the land,\u201d said Flomo Wolobah, 47, the founder of Ekki Village, the community at the forefront of the opposition of Jallah\u2019s acquisition of the farmland. He said he and other villagers have little land left to farm. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jallah said he got the land from Chief Jallah Lone, his father, in the early 2000s as a token after he advised the late legendary paramount chief of Bopolu to document his ownership of all the land in the district. He paid L$150 (US$1.61 today) to seal the deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI am not afraid, I am a citizen and I am not doing anything wrong,\u201d Jallah told The DayLight in an interview on Daryan Organic Farm on a rainy day in August marking its first anniversary. \u201cI am doing a good investment here for the citizens to benefit, so it is not something to hide.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"974\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/stage.thedaylight.org\/wp68\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Sylvester.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1765\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stage.thedaylight.org\/wp68\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Sylvester.png 974w, https:\/\/stage.thedaylight.org\/wp68\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Sylvester-600x263.png 600w, https:\/\/stage.thedaylight.org\/wp68\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Sylvester-300x132.png 300w, https:\/\/stage.thedaylight.org\/wp68\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Sylvester-768x337.png 768w, https:\/\/stage.thedaylight.org\/wp68\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Sylvester-150x66.png 150w, https:\/\/stage.thedaylight.org\/wp68\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Sylvester-696x305.png 696w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 974px) 100vw, 974px\" \/><figcaption>Villagers accuse Slyvester Jallah of grabbing 750 acres of farmland in Bopolu District, Gbarpolu County. The DayLight\/Henry Gboluma<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u2018Go to court\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In February last year, chiefs and elders of the Fallah Clan met with Jallah to discuss the dispute. \u00a0In that meeting, he presented tribal certificates his father and district authorities had issued him for the land but the chiefs refused to recognize the document on the ground that they were \u201cfake.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jallah then agreed to meet the elders the next month. However, more than a year on, that meeting has not been held. Efforts by Paramount Chief Dianah Johnson of Gungbeyah Chiefdom to reach a resolution have also not materialized. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI am not going to argue with anybody on the land issue here,\u201d Jallah told The DayLight. \u201cJust go to the court and present your case then we can discuss it from there.\u201d His tribal certificates appear to be altered, with erasure marks on the portion with his name and locations of the lands.\u00a0 (He allowed The DayLight to take pictures of the documents under the condition that we did not publish them).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The villagers The DayLight interviewed accused Jallah of using his family status to grab farmland belonging to the entire community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe don\u2019t know his next plan of action,\u201d said Morris. \u201cMaybe the following year he will like to extend it to the Maher River.\u201d The river separates Gbarpolu from Bomi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHe feels that we don\u2019t have the strength to fight him,\u201d Wolobah added. \u201cFor him, he\u2019s got money. For us, we are struggling. It is because his name is Jallah.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Former Pro Tempore, Jallah\u2019s elder brother, also <a href=\"https:\/\/stage.thedaylight.org\/wp68\/2021\/09\/17\/ex-senate-pro-tempore-claims-850-acres-of-community-land-in-gbarpolu\/\">faces similar allegations<\/a> from people in Fallah Clan over 850 acres of land in a place called Underwear Town, a portion of which he has a vast palm plantation. He denied any wrongdoing, saying, \u201cThe land there is for us by inheritance,\u201d and that the people of Ekki Village were \u201cstrangers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Jallahs are a household name in Gbarpolu County. The late Paramount Chief Lone, their father, was revered up to his death in 2011 for being a unifier and peacemaker. He served as head of the National Traditional Council of Liberia from the late 1990s to the early 2000s. The Jallah Lone Medical Center, the largest hospital in the western county, is named after him. A representative of Bopolu told the then-Land Commission in 2012 that the late Lone and other chiefs <a href=\"https:\/\/eeas.europa.eu\/archives\/delegations\/liberia\/documents\/press_corner\/20130916_01.pdf?fbclid=IwAR00jmxyO6Jcry9nF3jCXXy8h2V_KaN2Z3RocRXE7XUGRQSsryhMhmsFRQM\">controlled 790,982 acres of land in the District. <\/a>The former President Pro Tempore of the Liberian Senate helped establish Gbarpolu as a county in 2001 while serving as senator of Lofa County. He is the only person to serve as senator for two counties. The younger Jallah threads the family\u2019s political path, too. He contested the 2017 elections for a seat in the House of Representatives, <a href=\"https:\/\/necliberia.org\/results\/county_30_13.php?&amp;7d5f44532cbfc489b8db9e12e44eb820=NDU%3D\">finishing fifth<\/a> in the field of 10 contestants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the younger Jallah is adamant the plots of land in Fallah and Barma Clan have something to do with his family\u2019s influence. \u201cThere are some misconceptions surrounding it,\u201d he told me, \u201cand some people want to politicize what we are trying to do.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"974\" height=\"547\" src=\"https:\/\/stage.thedaylight.org\/wp68\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Wolobah.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1766\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stage.thedaylight.org\/wp68\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Wolobah.png 974w, https:\/\/stage.thedaylight.org\/wp68\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Wolobah-600x337.png 600w, https:\/\/stage.thedaylight.org\/wp68\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Wolobah-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/stage.thedaylight.org\/wp68\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Wolobah-768x431.png 768w, https:\/\/stage.thedaylight.org\/wp68\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Wolobah-150x84.png 150w, https:\/\/stage.thedaylight.org\/wp68\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Wolobah-696x391.png 696w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 974px) 100vw, 974px\" \/><figcaption>Flomo Wolobah of Fallah Clan is one of several villagers who challenges Sylvester Jallah\u2019s claim to 750 acres of land in the Gungbeyah Chiefdom of Bopolu District, Gbarpolu County. The DayLight\/James Harding Giahyue<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The conflict between the villagers and the Jallahs is typical of how controversial tribal certificates are to Liberia\u2019s land reform. \u00a0The Land Rights Act of 2018 guarantees rural communities\u2019 ownership. Previous statutes\u2014a bevy of hinterland legislations between the 1900s and 1920s, the Aborigine Law of 1949, and the Public Land Act of 1952\u2014granted them the only user\u2019s rights. Chiefs and elders, who represented the communities in land matters, extended that right to third parties through certificates for the decades that proceeded. The exact number of those tribal certificates is unknown but could well be in their thousands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Under the Land Rights Act, townspeople in Fallah and Barma Clan must approve Jallah\u2019s ownership of the 750 acres before he gets a deed for the land.&nbsp; The law requires the Liberia Land Authority (LLA) and the community in which the land in question is located to vet all tribal certificates related to that particular community. &nbsp;The developed portion of the land remains with the holders and the undeveloped is returned to the community. That process <a href=\"https:\/\/elbcradio.com\/2021\/01\/04\/liberia-land-authority-to-begin-validation-of-tribal-certificates\/\">began<\/a> in January earlier this year and should end in 2023.<\/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 said Adams Manobah, chairman of the LLA \u00a0told me in a mobile phone interview. \u201cIf you have a tribal certificate and you developed portion of the [land that tribal certificate represents]\u2026 the area that you developed is hundred percent for you on ground 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\">Last week, the Civil Society Land Rights Working Group (CSO-LRWG) criticized the LLA for the slow pace of the implementation of the law. The law requires the government to conduct a confirmatory survey of all customary lands. That has not been done, even though <a href=\"https:\/\/frontpageafricaonline.com\/county-news\/liberia-fessibu-first-to-complete-customary-land-process-as-more-communities-line-up\/\">some communities<\/a> have already completed all other legal steps more than a year ago. The LLA has also not formulated the regulations, which should facilitate the implementation of the law. It has started the process but is expected not to be completed until the first quarter of next year, according to Manobah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CSO-LRWG, a conglomerate of several nongovernmental organizations, called on the LLA to speed up the formulation of the regulations and investigate reports of current and former officials of government, and their relatives and business people grabbing community land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe CSO-LRWG has [witnessed] a huge surge in land-grabs by so-called elites of community customary land and some have degenerated into land conflicts and yet the Liberia Land Authority has not done much to properly investigate these land grabs and conflicts and bring them to an amicable settlement,\u201d said Paul Larry George, chairman of the Associates for Rural Development (ARD), one of the organizations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe government has to pay serious attention to this thing,\u201d said Alphonso Henries, the executive director of the Liberian Reform Movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cElite land-grab undermines the intent of the Land Rights Act,\u201d said Nora Bowier of the Sustainable Development Institute (SDI). \u201cIt worsens poverty as it deprives communities of their rights to a fair deal and\u00a0 economic benefits from their land and resources.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The LLA did not respond to The DayLight\u2019s queries for a response to the group\u2019s assertions. We will update the story once it does. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>Editor\u2019s Note: This story is a part of The DayLight Land-grab Reporting Series. <\/strong><\/em><strong>Additional Reporting by Henry Gboluma. <\/strong><em><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Banner Image: A portion of the 750 acres of land Sylvester Jallah is claiming in Fallah Clan, Gbarpolu County. 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