NLB has no authority over Selebi-Phikwe

SELEBI PHIKWE: The principal information and public relations officer at Ngwato Land Board, Chandapiwa Baputaki has said that the regional land authority has no jurisdiction, through the Mmadinare Sub-Land Board, to allocate land within Selebi-Phikwe township.

Baputaki dismissed allegations by Selebi-Phikwe residents who claimed that they were allocated commercial plots by the Mmadinare Sub-Land Board to build lodges along the Selebi-Phikwe-Sefhophe Road only to be stopped by the Selebi-Phikwe Town Council (SPTC).  Claims are that the said developers had already made developments worth P500,000 and P300,000 respectively before the council stopped them.

SPTC officials were recently quoted in a local publication saying that the Mmadinare Sub-Land Board had encroached on state land but that they are doing their best to engage the Lands Department to allow them to go ahead with their projects.

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