Land registration process difficult

SINCE the amendment of the Incorporated Land Group Act in 2009, certain new requirements, have made it very difficult for customary land groups to incorporate their new ILGs.
ILGs that were registered prior to the 2009 amendment were also required by Law to re-incorporate to comply with the new requirements.
A five-year period from March 1, 2012, to Feb 28, 2017, was given for these old ILGs to re-incorporate.
Any previous ILGs that did not comply with all the requirements as of March 1, 2017, automatically ceased to exist as a legal entity.
The new requirements of the amended LGIA 2009 were the provision of certified birth certificates of the ILG members.
The ILG clan land is also to be physically walked by clan leaders, provincial and national land officers, land mediators and the provincial surveyor.
The demarcated clan land and the resultant sketch maps are then required to be drawn by the registered surveyor using a topographical map of the area or GPS coordinates to indicate the size and exact land boundaries.
Lists of the properties of the clan, such as land, rivers, creeks, mountains, ridges, swamp, etc, were required to be provided as well.
All the above requirements are to be submitted together with the application for ILG formation by the group, failure of which may result in delays in the registration process.
How many of the past ILGs have easily re-incorporated and complied with the new requirements of the LGIA?
How can ordinary people out in the rural areas be compelled to provide certified birth certificates where there are hardly any such records?
How can the clan during this early stages of their ILG formation, again be compelled to meet the cost of engaging government officials and risking their safety to traverse unknown territory, which can be met with unknown disaster?
How can the sketch maps be drawn using topographical maps when land ownership boundaries can be overlapping without the clans’ knowledge?
How can the boundaries be easily plotted with a hand-held GPS device when the terrain is so rugged, difficult to walk and possibly under dispute?
With these problems and questions, one wonders how the registration of clan land can be achieved smoothly, if that is the purpose of the ILG formation.

Lorenitz Gaius
Ketskets village