Congratulation Ellen for your government's plan to evict illegal land owners. however, your administration has to remember that it was not only during the civil crisis that individuals illegally acquired lands. This practice goes back hundred of years by the power that be at the time. One would hope that whatever apparatus is put in place will equally investigate and have those indigenous people whose pieces of land were taking to make way for the rubber farms will have their land back in the country side. I pray that this policy will be administered to the letter for the best interest of us all especially the powerless.

While I do not want to dispute the fact that there are illegal land owners in Liberia, I think what the President and most Liberians are concerned about is those people who go about selling deeded land belonging to peaceful citizens to unsuspecting or innocent buyers. This trend has to stop. The buyers themselves should also beware of buying land for example in the heart of the city especially this late day and time. You can not easily find free land in the heart of most Liberian cities. So buyers must beware. Make sure that the land being sold to you is being sold by the legitimate owner. You can confirm this by going to the Ministry of Lands Mines and Energy. Authorities at this Ministry will check the city map and be able to determine whether the land being sold to you is being sold by the rightful owner of the land.

On the question of the rubber farm owners, I can assure you that most of said land are legitimate. Like in my case, the land I bought from the government of Liberia on which I have my rubber farm does not "encroach upon the tribal Reserve and was unecumbered" at the time of purchase from the Government of the day. A tribal Certificate signed by the various Chiefs confirmed that the Land in question did not "encroach upon our Tribal Reserve and is unencumbered." Hence, since this was public land, I therefore negotiated with the government of Liberia, and obtained the necessary legal documents (deed) which entitles me to the ownership of said land as prescribed by law. This arrangement clearly can not be revisited and I don't think this is what the president and well meaning Liberians are talking about on the Land issue.