MPs reject �selective� land policy

The policy returned to Parliament this week, after it failed in the October 2013 session, where MPs expressed their discomfort with the use of the word “indigenous” in clauses where the policy proposed to reserve land for people “indigenous” to each village.

In its latest version, “indigenous” has been replaced with “selective”, which MPs still think could fuel tribalism. Debating the policy this week, Tswapong North MP, Prince Maele said even though he felt that the policy was good, he could not support it because of paragraph 72 which stated that a quota of land would be reserved for “selected people”.