I came across a hogwash of an opinion article penned by a suspected fictitious character named Biliyaminur Surajo titled, “Mining Cadastre Office, A Threat to National Security” published on Sahara Reporters and other online media which by all intents and purposes was crafted to not only diminish the great job the Mining Cadastral office (MCO) is...
I came across an opinion article penned by Biliyaminur Surajo titled, “Mining Cadastre Office, A Threat to National Security”, which by all intents and purposes was crafted to not only diminish the great job the Mining Cadastral Office is doing but also to cast aspersion on the foremost cadastral agency and bring it to disrepute.
He cited a crisis of overlapping titles, alleging that “for a fee, fake community consent documents can be obtained through MCO channels”. This is not only far from the truth, but a blatant lie.
During that period of glitch, it was reported that applicants saw free mining areas on the platform which already had valid owners before the migration, and these caused a few incidents of overlapping titles. From my investigations, it was gathered that a standing committee has since been at work resolving the issues amicably, and it is pertinent that those who are facing similar challenges reach out to the agency.
From an informed perspective, the initial glitches that affected the migration of the cadastral system to the eMC+ platform might have been averted if the MCO technical staff had some input in the building of the electronic system. That was not the case as I learnt the agency only made inputs and modifications after the system, funded by MINDIVER, was delivered.
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