Angola: Land-Grabbing as a Path to Riches and Status in Angola

Jan 29, 2016 | Maka Angola
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Angolan investigative journalist and human rights defender Rafael Marques de Morais has submitted a complaint to the Office of the Attorney General about the behaviour of notorious Kwanza-Sul Governor, General Eusébio de Brito Teixeira, for illegal land-grabbing. The complaint refers to yet more illegal appropriation of rural land, after having already grabbed more than 300 square kilometers to raise cattle and farming. The Governor is suspected of three criminal offences: the unlawful transfer of land from the State to an individual; unlawfully re-designating land for real estate development as rural land; and assigning reduced value to these lands below their real commercial value (thus defrauding the State).