Keywords
Land Administration
Corruption, Land Corruption, Maladministration practice.
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Abstract
Land is never just a commodity or a means of subsistence; it is a major source of an economic asset, a connection with identity, and social legitimacy which pervasively underpins human activity that usually plays some role prone to corruption. Many conflicts over land grow, and various impacts are identified, but then again, the land itself is often not the sole cause of such impact; maladministration practice also facilitates the problem.
Objectives: This paper aims to analyse the impact of corruption in land administration; and assess the maladministration practice of public officials as recognised as sole heavy prone to corruption.
Findings: findings show that issues like land disposition/ allocation, Land valuation, land titling/identification, and land Planning use and investment (to mention a few) have major impacts on society since there is much room for corrupt practices to nourish. So, it is concluded that land and corruption are guises in fiction, requiring both individuals and public officials’ willingness to fight against them.
Methodology: This article adopts qualitative and quantitative methods to review the existing literature to generate data, explore the bases of corruption in land administration, and analyse the impacts of corrupt practices.
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