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build and have been living lawfully in the house for years. The Kuk has asked for a very modest scale of ex-gratia compensation payments when lawful permitted structures have their permits cancelled
prior to clearance. This would be in addition to
resettlement for the occupants who would get that even if the building was unlawful. I have much sympathy with this but am having a job persuading Lands Branch and others. The legal and doctrinal objections to compensating for cancelling a permit in accordance with agreed conditions of the permit are formidable just as they are to doing anything to a squatter other than puț him in prison. On the other hand the house owner has done his best to comply with the law, been unable
because of our policies, to get authority to put up a
permanent building, and has probably put his life savings
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into his house. If the massive clearances of long and lawfully established communities is to proceed speedily and peacefully this extra compensation payable for rermitted structures but not unlawful squatter structures would help especially as the Kuk is proposing it.
The Minister can only say at this stage that the Kuk's proposals are understood and being considered. He could add a few words on the difference between compensation under the law and ex-cratia compensations and welfare programmes such as resettlement when squatters are cleared
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