The Customary Land Tenure and The Importance of Certificate of Customary Land Ownership. A Case Study in Acholi-Madi Sub- Region.

CHAPTER ONE

RESEARCH BACKGROUND This contains the problem that the researcher intents to address, the objectives of the research paper and the methods the researcher will use to collect data while in the field as well as an analysis of the similar prior research undertaken by scholars towards the same subject matter. To the best of the knowledge of the researcher, as the title of the research reads "The customary land tenure and the importance of certificate of customary land ownership", cases study of the AcholiMadi Sub-region". From the library literature and any other literatures or thesis on customary land tenure, not much has been written and researched on the subject matter, thus this research has been provoked to unearth, discover and pave a way forward through a legal research the importance of the customary land tenure or title, as most land in the regions of Acholi-Madi corridors/ sub-region of northern Uganda are held under customary tenure system which then brings the question of the relevance of customary tenure and the importance of certificate of customary land ownership to the holders or occupants of land held under customary tenure system and other tenure systems at large under the Land Act. The research intends to investigate the procedure used to acquire certificate of customary land ownership under customary tenure and the respective roles of the respective native authorities' in the grant of the certificate of customary ownership of land under customary tenure system. The research study also undertakes to find out the reason for conversion of the customary land tenure system to freehold tenure system and the benefits that accrue from holding land title under freehold tenure.