GUA MUSANG: The Selatan Kelantan Development Authority (Kesedar) is currently refining methods to divide residential land lots for the second generation of settlers to resolve the issue of overlapping ownership on the same land lots.
Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said it would be carried out similarly to the approach taken by Felda.
"What Kesedar is working on is to get a nearby area or land to be divided into lots for the second or third generation," he said at the Temu Mata programme with the Jeram Tekoh community here today.
Ahmad Zahid, who is also Minister of Rural and Regional Development, explained that the issue arose because more than one house was built on the same residential land lot for the second generation of settlers, leading to overlapping ownership on the same lot.
"In such situations, we are trying to avoid overlapping ownership of the same lot under different names. This has happened, and we hope to resolve it as has been done in other regional development authorities," he said.
Ahmad Zahid said the cabinet meeting last Wednesday also approved several improvements to the Sejahtera People's Housing Project, which will benefit settlers, but the detailed information regarding the matter would only be announced after the Nenggiri state by-election this Saturday.
Meanwhile, the Deputy Prime Minister reminded Pas and Perikatan Nasional not to mislead settlers during the campaign for the by-election by claiming that the Kelantan government has authority over land owned by Kesedar.
"The land for which premiums have been paid by Kesedar belongs to the regional development authority, as stipulated under the National Land Code.
"Therefore, it is within the rights of the regional development authority to distribute the land to settlers or participants, and the division of these lots must follow the processes determined by the land office," he said.
Pas secretary-general Datuk Seri Takiyuddin Hassan, during his ceramah at the Nenggiri by-election campaign last week, alleged that Kesedar had delayed processing land titles despite the state government's approval of the settlers' applications.
In response to this, Ahmad Zahid said 7,000 hectares of Kesedar land had already been divided into lots and were in the process of being transferred to 2,200 settlers in phases.