Govt seeks 11 billion CFA f to digitize national land registry

The main problem confronting the national territory department have been noted as double land titles, overlap of plots and fraudulent land titles. To address these quandaries, Mindcaf plans to create a database of all Cameroonian territories using a computerized system.

For a better implementation of this mechanism, government has mobilized over 11 billion through loan agreements with its partners.

This announcement was made on Thursday during the first edition of the open day organised by the Mindcaf in Yaounde, in the presence of several members of Government including the Minister of public works, Patrice Amba Salla and the Minister of urban development and housing, Jean-Claude Mbwentchou. It was during this session that Jacqueline Koung à Besseke, launched the project.

According to Mindcaf, "the realization of the digital national land registry aims to secure and enhance the national territory to improve economic growth in a sustainable way toward the reduction of poverty."

The territory is a comprehensive and permanent inventory which involves descriptive and evaluative data in a geometrical and descriptive way for all the pieces of lands belonging to the state (public and private) national territory areas.

This computerized system is intended to serve as an ultimate reliable data repository for the allocation, materialization and mapping out of international borders and the boundaries of the administrative units (region, departments, districts, common). It will also cater for the geometrical and descriptive data of plots of land (owner, legal status, area, etc.) the public private and national domain of the entire country.

A structuring project will be deployed throughout the country, with the pursuit of the densification of the geodetic network of Cameroon which consists of 1,159 points to reach 2,000 points. This is what will form the backbone of support in planning the territory.

The manufacture of digital national mapping on a large scale including the 336 communes attached on the geodetic network is a huge project, Mindcaf explained.