By: Thaimu Bai Sesay
The Ministry of Lands, Housing and Country Planning has on Monday 20th March, 2023, in a press release, informed the general public that the Ministry would in a Raffle Draw, scheduled on Friday 28th April, 2023, share Plots of State Land to Motorcycle and Tricycle Riders.
The Ministry intimated that it had identified Plots of State Land in the Crown Colony which its planning to be allocated to Sierra Leoneans through the Land Raffle Model, described to be fair, transparent and equitable in the distribution of State Land to its citizens. The Ministry went on specifying that the 2023 Raffle Draw would be targeting Motorcycle Riders (Okada Riders) and Tricycle Riders (Kekeh Riders) across the country.
Giving directives on the process, the Ministry was inviting all Motorcycle and Tricycle Riders to apply for State Land by presenting a Valid Driver’s License at the Ministry’s Front Desk on the 3rd Floor of Youyi Building in Freetown. The Ministry affirmed that the presentation of a Valid Driver’s License was to enable applicants to have access to a free hard copy of the Application Form which could also be downloaded at the Ministry’s official website – www.molhcp.gov.sl.
The Ministry of Land, Housing and Country Planning furthered that the Land Raffle Applicants should attach photocopies of their Motorcycle or Tricycle registration documents, valid deriver’s license and union membership cards. The Ministry instructed that completed application forms should be returned to the Front Desk of the Ministry on or before Friday 14th April, 2023 to qualify to take part in the Public Land Raffle.
Recalling the benefits, the Raffle Draw had made to Sierra Leoneans since its introduction in December, 2021, the Ministry said that 200 Sierra Leoneans from all works of life had benefitted a total of 400 Town Lots of State Land at Upper Allen Town on the Middle Raffle Draw. It added that another 500 set of Sierra Leoneans including Civil Servants, Teachers, Lecturers, Journalists, Doctors, Nurses and Forces had also benefitted from 1,000 Town Lots of State Land at Kent Junction and Bureh in the Western Area Rural Communities.
The Ministry assured that it would remain committed to allocating State Land to Sierra Leoneans using various models in a fair and transparent manner.